Senior Software Engineer CoreAI

Do you want to help build and operate the platform that powers serverless computing at global scale Azure Functions is at the heart of Azures serverless platform and enables developers to build scalable event-driven applications without managing the underlying infrastructure!

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer - CoreAI to join the Azure Functions Platform team . In this role you will design build operate and maintain core platform components and distributed systems that support the reliable execution of customer workloads across Azure. You will work on systems where reliability performance scalability security and diagnosability are fundamental design requirements.

This is an opportunity to solve deep distributed-systems and platform-engineering problems improve the operational maturity of a rapidly growing cloud service and help define how cloud-native and AI-powered applications are built on Azure.

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• Design implement test and ship platform capabilities and services for Azure Functions.
• Build and maintain large-scale distributed systems with a focus on reliability availability scalability performance security and cost efficiency.
• Own services through their full lifecycle including design development deployment monitoring incident response troubleshooting repair work and continuous improvement.
• Use logs metrics traces telemetry testing and automation to proactively identify issues and improve production health.
• Investigate and resolve complex technical issues in running online services including problems that span multiple components or dependencies.
• Develop and improve platform tooling and automation for safe deployments regression detection rollback and operational readiness.
• Partner with engineers and stakeholders across teams to define requirements make sound technical decisions and deliver maintainable solutions.
• Contribute to architecture and design reviews code reviews engineering standards and technical direction for platform components.
• Mentor other engineers and help strengthen engineering practices across the team.

Required/Minimum 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.

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• 2 years of experience designing building operating or maintaining distributed systems or cloud services.
• Experience developing and maintaining platform or infrastructure components for large-scale online services.
• Experience with public cloud platforms such as Azure AWS or Google Cloud.
• Experience with containers and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes.
• Experience improving service reliability performance scalability diagnosability and operational efficiency.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production issues using logs metrics traces telemetry and debugging tools.
• Experience with modern software engineering practices including design and code reviews automated testing source control build and release processes and secure development.
• Communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering teams.

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.

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.

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