Principal Data Privacy Engineer

Job Description

Microsoft AI (MAI) is seeking an experienced Principal Data Privacy Engineer to help build mission applications and platform components for personal AI, Copilot systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years experience building scalable services on top of public cloud infrastructure like Azure, AWS, or GCP. Extensive use of datastores like RDBMS, key-value stores, etc.
• 3+ years experience collaborating with engineering, product, legal, and compliance teams to embed privacy-by-design principles and build automated scalable governance mechanisms into data infrastructure.
• 3+ years experience building data lineage tracking, proactive alerting mechanisms monitoring, and enforcing compliance with internal standards and external regulations.

Responsibilities

• Build tools in the areas of data security, privacy, and governance products in distributed data, cloud platform environments.
• Work collaboratively with other Platform, infrastructure, application engineers as well as AI Researchers to build next-generation automated data governance systems.
• Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code.
• Find a path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into the hands of users quickly and iteratively.
• Enjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle.
• Embody our Culture and Values.

Benefits

• Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.