Microsoft
Senior/Principal Software Engineer - Growth (CoreAI)
- Location
- Hayes Valley, San Francisco
- Employment
- Full Time
Job summary
About the Role We’re building AI‑first engineering systems that power growth at Microsoft — designing, shipping, and scaling code that directly shapes how millions of developers experience and adopt AI. As a Growth Engineer in CoreAI, you’ll sit at the intersection of product, engineering, and data, driving experimentation, learning velocity, and real business impact across world‑class developer and AI products. This role is about shipping fast, learning faster, and scaling what works — all whi…
Interview process at Microsoft
Balanced - coding, design, and behavioral with equal weight. Less brutally-competitive vibe than FAANG peers but the bar is real. Team-fit matters more than at Amazon.
- Recruiter screen
- Technical phone screen (45 min, 1 coding problem)
- Full loop: 4 rounds - 2 coding, 1 design (system or component), 1 'as-appropriate' (senior manager, cross-functional)
- Team-specific chat
- Offer