Principal Software Engineer - AI Powered Observability
About the role
and then awith that content (maybe combine multiple paragraphs). Then "Responsibilities" heading with list of responsibilities. Then "Qualifications" maybe includes required/minimum qualifications and other requirements. Also "Additional Or Preferred Qualifications". Could combine into Qualifications section. Also "Skills" maybe separate? The posting includes many skill items under Additional Or Preferred Qualifications. Could treat as Skills section. Pay: there is a pay range info: "Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year." So we can include Pay section with that. Benefits: The posting mentions "Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay". That's not specific benefits; it's a link. According to rule: do NOT create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It mentions benefits generically but not specific. Probably we should not create Benefits section because no specific benefits listed. The instruction: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state benefits generically but not specific. Might be considered stating them? It says "Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation." That's vague. I'd say we should not create Benefits section because no concrete benefits listed. Could include a short paragraph referencing the link? But that's basically application instruction? It's a link to benefits info. Might be considered boilerplate? Probably safer to omit Benefits section. Schedule: posting says "This role will require a minimum of three days in office." That's schedule info. So we can include Schedule section with that. Also there is "This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled." That's application instruction, should be removed. Also EEO boilerplate removed. Now we need to preserve all substantive information. Let's extract. Overview paragraph: "Are you a customer-obsessed, AI-curious problem-solver who thrives in an inclusive, collaborative global team? Join Engineering Operations (EngOps) – the organization driving operational excellence across the Microsoft Cloud to strengthen quality, reliability, security, and customer trust. As part of EngOps, you’ll design solutions that prevent issues before they happen, embed AI-powered automation, and turn signals into actions that deliver measurable customer impact. Our culture of empowerment, inclusion, and growth mindset defines how we work. Azure Reliability is driving transformation to AI-powered operations by building scalable ML infrastructure that enables autonomous, reliable, and secure cloud systems. We are looking for candidates that can combine deep technical expertise in MLOps with a proven ability to deliver measurable business impact through continuous learning, policy-driven governance, and responsible AI practices. Success in this role means advancing operational autonomy, quality, and security, while fostering collaboration and accountability across teams. Every day, customers stake their business and reputation on our cloud. You can help #EngOps keep them secure, resilient, and ready. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond." That's a lot. We'll put in
. Responsibilities: list bullet points after "Responsibilities". Let's extract each sentence starting with a verb. "Partner across multiple product groups to apply subject-matter expertise in distributed systems design practices, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, basic dependencies at scale, and the code that defines infrastructures." "Lead by example and mentors' others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products." (typo mentors' but keep as is) "Develop and evangelize insights, best practices, and standards that can be applied to improve system, platform, and/or product development and operations across the business." "Drive continuous improvements in the architecture, code, features, operations and comprehensive use scenarios of products by leveraging end-to-end technical expertise." "Make improvements to the product fundamentals and architecture, share knowledge and code, always looking for ways to make what we build useful to multiple teams and products." "Demonstrates end-to-end expertise in distributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers." "Provide technical leadership in test maturity reviews, static analysis reviews, meetings, on-call rotations, and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles." "Provides deep business and technical expertise as required to resolve major incidents." "Embody our Culture and Values" (maybe separate but could be part of responsibilities? It's a heading? Actually it's a subheading "Embody our Culture and Values". Might be its own section? But we only have allowed headings list; we could treat as part of Responsibilities or maybe as a separate section like "Culture and Values". Not in allowed list; but we could incorporate into Responsibilities as a bullet. We'll keep as bullet. Now Qualifications: Required/minimum qualifications: "Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience." Note missing space before OR but keep. Other Requirements: "Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screeningsMicrosoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter." We need to keep that. Additional Or Preferred Qualifications: list many items. We'll treat as Skills maybe. Let's extract each line after "Additional Or Preferred Qualifications". It seems like a paragraph with multiple sentences separated by periods. "Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience." "Awareness of, and ability to reason about, modern distributed software design patterns and cloud systems architecture, including microservices, containers, load-balancing, queuing, caching." "Experience with C#/Java/C/C++/Golang." "Experience in building, shipping and operating reliable solutions." "Experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), risk assessment systems, or intelligent automation solutions." "Experience leading technical initiatives and influencing architecture, design, and engineering best practices across teams." "Demonstrated ability to drive operational excellence through automation, scalability, reliability, and continuous improvement." We could put these under Skills section as
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Now Pay section: we have the pay ranges.
Schedule section: "This role will require a minimum of three days in office."
Now we must not include application instructions, EEO, etc.
Now produce HTML fragment with headings
and content. Order: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Skills, Pay, Schedule. (We could combine Qualifications and Skills? But we have both.) Make sure not to repeat job title. Let's craft. We'll need to escape any HTML special characters? The text includes apostrophes, etc. It's fine. We'll produce:
About the role
... (the overview paragraph)
Responsibilities
- Partner across multiple product groups to apply subject-matter expertise in distributed systems design practices, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, basic dependencies at scale, and the code that defines infrastructures.
- Lead by example and mentors' others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
- Develop and evangelize insights, best practices, and standards that can be applied to improve system, platform, and/or product development and operations across the business.
- Drive continuous improvements in the architecture, code, features, operations and comprehensive use scenarios of products by leveraging end-to-end technical expertise.
- Make improvements to the product fundamentals and architecture, share knowledge and code, always looking for ways to make what we build useful to multiple teams and products.
- Demonstrates end-to-end expertise in distributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers.
- Provide technical leadership in test maturity reviews, static analysis reviews, meetings, on-call rotations, and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles.
- Provides deep business and technical expertise as required to resolve major incidents.
- Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screeningsMicrosoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Skills
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience.
- Awareness of, and ability to reason about, modern distributed software design patterns and cloud systems architecture, including microservices, containers, load-balancing, queuing, caching.
- Experience with C#/Java/C/C++/Golang.
- Experience in building, shipping and operating reliable solutions.
- Experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), risk assessment systems, or intelligent automation solutions.
- Experience leading technical initiatives and influencing architecture, design, and engineering best practices across teams.
- Demonstrated ability to drive operational excellence through automation, scalability, reliability, and continuous improvement.
Pay
Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.
Schedule
This role will require a minimum of three days in office.
Check that we didn't include any boilerplate