Principal AI Platform Security Engineer

Microsoft Corporation; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 138,000 - 314,000; Full time

Job summary

Microsoft Corporation in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to advance the MAI Data, Privacy, and Security team for Copilot. You will design and build secure, scalable backend services, assess risk, and collaborate with platform, infra, and AI researchers to ship high-quality code.

The role emphasizes secure coding, API design, sandboxing, automated testing, and intrusion detection, with opportunities to influence product security at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical discipline and 6+ years of engineering experience building systems with coding in languages such as Python, C#, C++, Golang, Rust, Java
• 6+ years' experience building scalable services and/or securing applications and infrastructure on public cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) with extensive datastore experience
• 6+ years' experience building distributed systems at scale across bare-metal to containers and networking
• Familiarity with novel attack classes on AI-powered systems

Responsibilities

• Build secure and performant AI Platform services that power Copilot.
• Solve novel security and privacy problems at the frontier of applied AI and agential systems.
• Collaborate with Platform, infrastructure, application engineers and AI researchers to build next-generation AI products.
• Ship high-quality, secure, maintainable code.
• Find a path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into users' hands quickly and iteratively.
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven product development cycle.
• Embody our Culture and Values.

Skills

Python

C#

C++

Golang

Rust

Java

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

RDBMS

Kubernetes

Containers

Job description

Microsoft Corporation in Mountain View, CA is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to advance the MAI Data, Privacy, and Security team for Copilot. You will design and build secure, scalable backend services, assess risk, and collaborate with platform, infra, and AI researchers to ship high-quality code.

The role emphasizes secure coding, API design, sandboxing, automated testing, and intrusion detection, with opportunities to influence product security at scale.