Principal Architect
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Nov 13, 2025 | |
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OverviewJoin our innovative Web Data Platform Team as a Principal Architect to envision and deliver Web Data needs for Grounding LLMs for 1st party Copilots and 3rd party AI solutions. At Web Data Team, you'll play a key role in building large scale platforms that are fundamental to Bing Search, AI Grounding and Microsoft AI training scenarios driving transformative scenarios powering massive scale of users while processing tens of billions of documents per day and managing hundreds of petabytes of data.In today's AI-driven world, where data is more valuable than ever, we're embarking on an exciting mission to elevate our platform, harnessing additional richness to position it as the integral building block of AI solutions across the industry. If you're passionate about building high-performance systems that shape the future of data platform that power AI solutions, this is the place for you! 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. Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.
ResponsibilitiesAlign team efforts with business and user requirements by collaborating with stakeholders to define priorities, resolve dependencies, and ensure delivery of well-documented design and implementation plans for products, applications, services, or platforms.Guide system design and architectural decisions across multiple components, encouraging the use of data and telemetry to make informed decisions.Drive engineering excellence by fostering a culture of building modular, secure, reliable, testable, maintainable, and reusable solutions, while promoting active monitoring practices.Establish quality assurance strategies by setting standards for improving test coverage, streamlining integration testing, and addressing critical problem areas proactively.Oversee and improve operational reliability, guiding efforts to troubleshoot and optimize automation, monitoring, and Live Site health. | |