Senior Software Engineer CoreAI (Foundry Observability)

CoreAIis at the forefront of Microsofts mission to redefine how software is built and experienced. Weare responsible forbuildingfoundationalplatforms services programming models and developer experiences that power the next generation of applications using Generative AI. Our work enables developers and enterprises to harness the full potential of AI to create intelligent adaptive and transformative software.

Microsoft Foundry Observability team within CoreAI builds observability evaluation and optimization that span core AI capabilities including model inferencing AI services model customization and agentic solutions. As a Senior Software Engineer you will build and evolve large scale cloud native systems that span the full lifecycle of advanced agentic applications from secure enterprise deployment and governed tool integration to fine tuning and training workflows to observability evaluation and optimization in production. Your work will directly contribute to how developers and enterprises build reliable autonomous and high impact AI agents.

Microsofts mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Asemployeeswe come together with a growth mindset innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect integrity and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positivelyimpactour culture every day.

Across the organization you will:

• Lead the design development and delivery of large-scale AI services and platforms with a focus on scalability reliability security and performance.

• Design and implement distributed systems and cloud services to run agents reliably at enterprise scale

• Drive innovation in observability automation deployment safety and operational efficiency through reusable platforms and frameworks.

• Improve developer and researcher workflows through better tooling abstractions and automation across fine tuning evaluation and optimization

• Debug and optimize interactions across models data and infrastructure

• Contribute to technical design and implementation across the software development lifecycle

• Maintain high standards for code quality testing reliability and operational excellence

• Collaborate closely with partner teams across CoreAI and Azure to deliver production ready platform capabilities.

You will contribute to a dynamic engineering culture through thoughtful design discussions code reviews and collaboration across teams. Youll have the opportunity to grow your technical scope while helping to build the platforms that enable intelligent agent systems at scale.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python

  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
    

Additional/Preferred Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python OR equivalent experience.

• 5 years technical engineering experience designing and delivering highly available large-scale cloud services and distributed systems .

• Demonstrated proficiency around leveraging AI to build systems and a passion to make this technology accessible to everyone

• 3 years of technical engineering experience with machine learning or AI systems

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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119800 - $234700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160200 - $261000 per year.

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Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142800 - $274800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188000 - $304200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.

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