Software Engineer

Overview

Are you a software engineer who loves code, moves fast, and enjoys solving problems at scale? Are you excited about AI and want to build the platform that makes AI reliable, resilient, and effortless to operate at global scale? Do you want to work with cutting-edge open-source and cloud technologies and build systems that are fault-tolerant, self-managing, self-healing, and highly scalable across public and private datacenters around the world? Do AI, Big Data, cloud infrastructure, Docker, Kubernetes, and distributed systems sounds appealing to you?

As part of the Azure Knowledge AI team within Microsoft AI Services, you’ll help shape the future of Content Understanding, and agentic memory. You’ll work with cutting-edge large and small language models and agentic infrastructure to deliver impactful, scalable AI services. You’ll play a critical role in building and optimizing large-scale AI systems that power real-world applications. This role offers you the opportunity to deepen your expertise in natural language processing, distributed systems, and model integration—while collaborating with world-class researchers and engineers across Microsoft. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we 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. 

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable AI services for Azure AI Content Understanding and Knowledge team.
• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to integrate cutting-edge large and small language models into production systems.
• Drive architecture and implementation decisions that ensure performance, reliability, and maintainability of AI services.
• Contribute to the development of agentic infrastructure that enables dynamic and intelligent interactions.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence, inclusion, and continuous learning.
• Participate in code reviews, design discussions, and cross-team collaborations to deliver high-quality software.

Qualifications

Required/minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience 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 or preferred qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficient in code tracing and debugging.
• Experience with Kusto or other database technologies.
• Experience analyzing logs and telemetry to identify the root causes of service issues.

Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $85,400 - $168,100 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 $111,100 - $183,700 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This 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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