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Principal Software Engineering Manager

Czech Republic, Prague, Prague💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Manage a team and own core systems evaluating AI quality, safety, and impact for Copilot experiences used by millions of users.

Role type

Principal Software Engineering Manager

Builds

Copilot Shadow Experimentation platform

Domain

AI safety and quality evaluation, large-scale distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

leading and developing engineering teams, designing large-scale software systems, backend/distributed systems/platform/infrastructure engineering, AI-native development practices, using data and operational metrics for engineering decisions

Preferred skills

Advanced degree in Computer Science or Engineering, proficiency in C/C++/C#/Java/JavaScript/Python, experience with AI-assisted development tools

Technologies

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python

Responsibilities

Manage and coach a team of individual contributors, set priorities and engineering direction, apply high-scale design principles, diagnose and resolve problems in distributed services, lead experimentation with AI tools to improve SDLC efficiency

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with team leadership

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