Principal Product Manager/Architect - Foundry Inference Platform (CoreAI)
Microsoft · Redmond, WA · Product Management
About this role
Microsoft is hiring a principal-level Principal Engineer in the software engineering function based in Redmond, WA. The posting calls out experience with Distributed Systems, Performance Optimization, Azure, Observability. Compensation is listed at $163,000–$296,400 per year.
- Role
- Principal Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- principal
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Redmond, WA
- Department
- Product Management
- Posted
- Mar 24, 2026
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Job description
from Microsoft careersWe are seeking a Principal Product Manager/Architect to define and guide the technical architecture of Microsoft Foundry as the most reliable, scalable, and efficient AI inferencing platform in the industry. This role sits at the intersection of platform architecture, largescale GPU fleet management, and strategic customer engagement, with end-to-end accountability for the product direction that shape reliability, efficiency, and customer trust at global scale.
This leader will partner with Engineering and Product Management leaders to drive reliability, efficiency and strategic customer engagement while remaining deeply engaged in nearterm execution. The role partners closely with engineering, product, and customer teams across CoreAI, Azure, and 1P products to ensure Foundry delivers industryleading reliability, worldclass GPU efficiency, and differentiated value for Microsoft’s most strategic AI customers.
Responsibilities
1. Product Reliability
Own the product direction for Microsoft Foundry inference, with a primary mandate to make the platform the most reliable enterprise inferencing service available. This includes defining architectural standards for global serving, multi-region resiliency, automated failover, and platform-managed disaster recovery, evolving the system from customer-managed resilience to platform-managed global reliability.