Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer (AI / Agentic Developer Productivity)

United States, Washington, Redmond
Salary
$142,800 - $274,800 per year
Level
Principal
Work type
On-site · Washington

Not stated in the posting: visa.

Open. First seen 26 October 2026.

About the role

Overview Are you a Software Engineer already at the forefront of agentic AI development — someone who uses agents to build software today and wants to build the platform that brings those capabilities to every developer at Microsoft? Do you have strong opinions about what great…

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What this role asks for

Particular to this role

CI/CD · GitHub · LLM · LangChain · Prompt Engineering · RAG

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Python

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The team: Software Engineering NEW TEAM

This team is new: its 107 open roles were posted Jul 2 – Oct 21, and Microsoft had none in it before. You would be one of its first people.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

C++ (102 of 107), C# (100 of 107), Python (100 of 107), Java (97 of 107), C (96 of 107), JavaScript (88 of 107), Azure (64 of 107)

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