**Overview**
We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to join our Microsoft AI – Copilot Discover – Knowledge Agent backend platform team, contributing to projects related to agentic vertical content generation pipelines, AI model serving pipeline, data ingestion, caching, and serving. This platform powers backend support for verticals such as weather, finance, sports, and potentially others, delivering content across Microsoft canvases including Copilot, Edge, MSN, and Windows, reaching over 1B+ customers globally. The ideal candidate is passionate about backend engineering and skilled at building highly distributed, high-volume, and reliable service platforms in the cloud. Experience with cloud storage, distributed task orchestration, and large-scale data processing is required, with proficiency on Azure or equivalent technologies on AWS and GCP (e.g., S3, Cloud Storage, Kafka, Kubernetes). You will provide technical leadership, drive engineering excellence, and deli...