Microsoft · 13 hours ago
Principal Architect
United States, Washington, Redmond
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$163K/yr - $296K/yr
8+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company empowering people and organizations globally. The Principal Architect on the Search & AI Platform team will collaborate to build the next generation of storage and computation fabric, working with cutting-edge cloud and machine learning technologies while leading architectural design and improving platform performance.
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Responsibilities
Partners with engineering, product, and developer stakeholders to deeply understand user workflows, pain points, and requirements across diverse scenarios, translating them into a cohesive and intuitive platform user experience
Leads end-to-end architectural design by identifying system and cross-team dependencies, defining design principles and technical direction, and producing high‑quality design documents that guide the evolution of the platform, tooling, and services
Designs and builds foundational platform components, frameworks, and tooling—creating reusable patterns, improving reliability and performance, and continuously optimizing for developer efficiency, maintainability, and ROI at enterprise scale
Serves as the authoritative subject-matter expert on internal platform features and capabilities, partnering with program managers and engineering leads to drive roadmap planning, release strategies, and workstream execution across the platform organization
Acts as a senior DRI in a DevOps operating model, shaping operational playbooks, mentoring engineers on operational best practices, and leading incident response. Monitors platform health, drives mitigation during service degradation, and leads restoration efforts for complex issues across clusters and scale units
Continuously researches and evaluates emerging technologies, patterns, and industry best practices, applying them to improve the platform’s availability, reliability, security, observability, operational consistency, and developer experience. Drives standards that ensure scalable, consistent operations across thousands of workloads and tenants
Qualification
Required
Bachelor'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 Python OR equivalent experience
Preferred
Master'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 Python
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
equivalent experience
Company
Microsoft
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10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1MKey Investors
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2022-12-09Post Ipo Equity
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1981-09-01Series Unknown· $1M
Leadership Team
Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO
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