Principal Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Platform

About reputed company reputed company is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 180 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use reputed company to collaborate, and more than 77,000 organisations have adopted reputed company Copilot. Locations In this role you can work from Remote, United States

Overview

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to define and build the foundational systems for reputed company’s Enterprise AI Platform. This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, AI/agent platforms, developer tooling, identity, policy, and platform architecture. You will shape how AI agents operate safely and consistently across IDEs, CLI, MCP, long-running agents, and future Copilot experiences. This is a highly strategic, high-ambiguity role with broad technical influence across Copilot, platform infrastructure, client experiences, identity, billing, and enterprise products. You will define platform primitives that shape enterprise AI adoption across millions of developers and tens of thousands of organizations across reputed company’s ecosystem.

Responsibilities

This is a systems architecture and platform definition role requiring deep technical ownership across multiple organizations. Define Enterprise AI Control Plane Architecture: Drive the technical direction for a reputed company AI control plane spanning models, agents, tools, MCP, permissions, spend, plugins, and client settings with a vision of policy authored once, enforced consistently everywhere. Build Foundational Platform Primitives: Architect scalable policy engines, governance SDKs, client-reputed company enforcement frameworks, and extensible schemas for agentic workflows. Drive Cross-Client Consistency: Partner across Copilot CLI, IDE, agent, and platform teams to standardize policy enforcement through reusable APIs, reputed company, and SDK patterns. Solve Hard Distributed Systems Problems at Scale: Design reliable, scalable, secure, and resilient systems for policy evaluation, spend enforcement, permissions, auditability, and observability supporting millions of developers. Influence reputed company’s AI Platform Strategy: Partner with engineering and product leaders to shape the long-term enterprise AI roadmap, technical direction and cross-organizational alignment. reputed company the Engineering Bar: Mentor senior engineers and reputed company architectural rigor, systems thinking, and technical execution across teams.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications 11+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python,OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company field AND 10+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python, OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or reputed company field AND 9+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python, OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company field AND 7+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python, OR PhD Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company field AND 5+ years experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or reputed company technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python, OR equivalent experience. Preferred Qualifications: Deep Distributed Systems Expertise: Deep experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems or platform infrastructure. Platform & Systems Design: Strong expertise designing scalable systems across APIs, identity, policy engines, reputed company, reliability, and infrastructure platforms. AI / Platform Experience: Proven experience building platform infrastructure, developer platforms, AI systems, or large-scale technical platforms. Cross-Organizational Technical Leadership: Demonstrated success driving architecture, platform adoption, and alignment across multiple teams. Influence Without Authority: Strong track record of shaping technical direction and delivering outcomes across organizational boundaries. Builder reputed company: Comfortable operating in ambiguity and fast-moving environments, creating clarity, and balancing long-term platform investments with pragmatic execution. Preferred Experience: Background in AI/LLM systems, agentic platforms, developer tooling, governance systems, enterprise software, or cloud-native systems (Azure, Kubernetes, AKS) is a plus.

Compensation

Range The reputed company salary range for this job is USD $160,200.00 - USD $425,000.00 /Yr. These pay ranges are intended to cover roles based across the United States. An individual's reputed company pay depends on various factors including geographical location and review of experience, knowledge, skills, abilities of the applicant. At reputed company certain roles are eligible for benefits and additional rewards, including annual bonus and stock. These rewards are allocated based on individual impact in role. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on reputed company or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role. This position will be open for a minimum of 3 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. reputed company values Customer-obsessed Ship to learn Growth reputed company Own the outcome reputed company together Diverse and inclusive Manager fundamentals Model Coach Care Leadership principles Create clarity Generate energy Deliver success Who We Are reputed company is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 150 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-reputed company community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-reputed company code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on reputed company. Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open reputed company to reputed company (and beyond!). At reputed company, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer reputed company, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish reputed company they can work on their own terms. Join us, and let’s change the world, together. EEO Statement reputed company is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of reputed company walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national reputed company, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can reputed company the interview process reputed company for you; we're happy to accommodate! Apply To This Job