Senior/Principal Software Engineer - Growth (CoreAI)
Microsoft Mountain View, CA Full-time 3/24/2026 $119.8k - $304.2k per year
Undergraduate with 2+ Years of Experience
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•FY 2025Job Description
The Growth Engineer role at Microsoft involves building AI-first engineering systems that enhance developer experiences with AI. You will drive experimentation and learning velocity while ensuring responsible and inclusive AI practices, working closely with product, engineering, and data teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- Software engineering fundamentals with experience building, shipping, and operating production services or client applications.
- Proficiency in designing scalable, reliable systems that support rapid iteration and experimentation.
- Experience writing high-quality, maintainable code and owning services end-to-end in a live environment.
- Ability to reason about performance, reliability, and correctness in high-traffic systems.
- Experience supporting or driving experimentation (A/B testing) in production environments.
- Understanding of experimentation quality, including guardrails, metrics selection, and rollout strategies.
- Engineering mindset grounded in hypothesis-driven development and learning through iteration.
Responsibilities
- Own growth through engineering excellence and experimentation.
- Design, ship, and iterate on growth experiments across acquisition, activation, engagement, and retention.
- Build and evolve A/B testing frameworks, metrics, and tooling that raise experimentation quality and confidence.
- Partner closely with Product, Data Science, Design, and Research to turn hypotheses into shipped learnings.
- Use data and telemetry to guide decisions — from experiment design to rollout strategy.
- Scale successful growth patterns across high-traffic, global AI products.
- Balance speed and rigor in a fast-paced, AI-first engineering environment.
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.
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