Principal Software Engineer - Gaming

Are you passionate about creating safe and inclusive online communities? Do you want to work at the intersection of Distributed Systems and Artificial Intelligence in a high-scale, customer-facing domain? How about impacting experience for millions of customers? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!  

The Safety Engineering group within the Gaming organization at Microsoft is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our team. Our mission is to protect gaming communities at Microsoft and beyond from ongoing and emerging harms. We develop context-aware safety solutions that operate across all media content types including text, image, audio and video. Our solutions operate at high scale, low customer latencies while leveraging state-of-the-art generative AI technologies. Our moderation solutions are designed to be generic, serving not only Gaming but also the rest of Microsoft and supporting third-party customers worldwide.  

Our team is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to lead cross-team engineering efforts through the next generation of product and technical evolution in the Content Moderation and Safety space. In this role, you will be at the forefront of architecture evolution for a multi-year engineering roadmap as well as leading execution of these solutions. You will collaborate with other teams across Xbox, Microsoft, and the gaming industry. You will also have the chance to mentor and grow engineers across teams, foster a culture of customer focus, collaboration, and drive technical excellence and innovation. If this opportunity sounds exciting to you, we can't wait to meet you and see how you bring your unique talents to work with us. 

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