# Principal AI Software Engineer - DevOps Acceleration

OverviewThe Commerce Engineering organization within Microsoft Commerce builds the platforms behind how Microsoft sells to and serves customers and partners worldwide. We're looking for a Principal Software Engineer with one mission: use AI throughout DevOps to sharply reduce the time from idea to launched feature. You're a practitioner with passionate opinions. You've used the industry's AI developer tools, and you know where they help, where they're overhyped and where they create new risk. You'll set the design principles that make our engineers faster while keeping the guardrails a global commerce business needs. You'll also be a critical voice: you'll challenge our assumptions, compare our approach with the best in the industry, and raise the quality of what we ship. 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. Responsibilities Shorten the path to

- **Id**: 4312025
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-principal-ai-software-engineer-devops-acceleration>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T21:06:52Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-14T12:41:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5050
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commerce, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 558
- **Ghost share**: 0.013
- **Stale share**: 0.57
- **Repost share**: 0.05
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 165600
- **Max**: 296400
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 296400

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-14T12:41:41Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,957 · green card filings: 2,767; Filings 12m: 6957

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T13:59:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 296400
- **Is top pay**: yes

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