| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
—
Salary
$119,800–$234,700 / yr
Posted
159 days ago
Closes
Jul 7, 2026

Market check

Salary context

Competitive pay

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $180k
This role $177k
$106k most similar roles pay here $248k

This role pays more than 64% of similar roles. Most pay $152,150–$207,350 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $177k versus about $180k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

Microsoft currently has 1586 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 1414 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Microsoft

At a glance

TL;DR · | Microsoft Careers

Apply Now Log in to save

As a Senior Software Engineer on Microsoft's MAIST team, you will play a pivotal role in designing and building core platform services for scalable training and evaluation of AI models. Your responsibilities include standardizing containerized workflows, implementing end-to-end observability through metrics and logging tools like Prometheus and Grafana, and architecting cloud-based infrastructure using Azure and Terraform. You will collaborate closely with data and product teams to ensure that the infrastructure supports the development of reliable and efficient AI systems. The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals in Python, Kubernetes, and distributed systems, as well as hands-on experience with cloud platforms and platform services such as job orchestration and data pipelines.

Skills

Python Kubernetes Azure Terraform Helm Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Docker CI/CD Airflow Argo

What you'll do

  • Design and build core platform services for scalable training and evaluation.
  • Standardize containerized workflows by maintaining Docker images and runtime configurations.
  • Implement end-to-end observability through metrics, tracing, logging, and monitoring.
  • Architect and operate Azure cloud platforms using infrastructure-as-code practices.
  • Enhance developer experience by creating tools for job submission and experiment management.

What we're looking for

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals in large-scale production systems.
  • Hands-on experience owning and operating production infrastructure.
  • Proficiency in Python for primary language use in production systems.
  • Expertise with Kubernetes and containers for deploying and managing workloads.
  • Experience building or operating platform services like job orchestration.
  • Ownership of production operations including monitoring, logging, and alerting.
  • Comfortable working on cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP acceptable).

Related searches

More | Microsoft Careers jobs All jobs at Microsoft

More like this

Similar roles

| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

Redmond, WA 68 days ago $119,800–$234,700
Azure Python Java Scala Spark Hadoop HDFS Kafka Flink Docker Kubernetes CI/CD PostgreSQL Redis Elasticsearch Prometheus Grafana Git Jenkins
Hybrid
Save

| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

US 53 days ago $119,800–$234,700
Python JavaScript SQL kQL PowerShell C# Azure DevOps CI/CD Terraform Synapse Fabric Kusto Data Factory EventHub StreamAnalytics Big Data Spark MSSpark Microsoft Fabric
Save

| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

US 39 days ago $142,800–$274,800
Windows Linux Python C C++ Go Rust Java SQL Azure AWS Kubernetes Terraform GitHub GitLab Jira Confluence CI/CD Docker Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL MongoDB Security Compliance Risk Assessment Vulnerability Research Threat Intelligence Platform Security Architecture
Save

| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

US 40 days ago $81,400–$161,800
Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Docker CI/CD PostgreSQL Linux Python PowerShell Terraform Ansible Prometheus Grafana Root Cause Analysis RCA FMEA Change Governance SLA Monitoring Emergency Preparedness UPS Generator AHU Servers SANs Networking
Save

| Microsoft Careers

Microsoft

US 40 days ago $119,800–$234,700
Azure Kubernetes AWS Terraform Docker CI/CD PostgreSQL Python Go Prometheus Grafana Git Jenkins Ansible Linux Windows_Server VMware Cisco_Networking Nutanix OpenStack Scrum Agile
Save