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The Senior Software Engineer - AI Systems joins the Azure PostgreSQL Database Services team to build foundational systems for AI agents. You will design and deliver AI-powered platforms that enable agents to understand organizational context, plan complex work, use tools, and collaborate with humans or other systems. Your daily work involves building distributed systems and cloud infrastructure to run AI-driven workloads reliably and securely at scale. You will integrate AI capabilities into engineering workflows, driving features from architecture through production. The role requires proficiency in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or Rust. You will solve technical problems at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and cloud platforms, specifically focusing on creating agentic systems and scalable backend services for the Azure PostgreSQL ecosystem.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $196750 from 2601 postings across 154 companies.
Design and build AI-powered systems and platforms to enable new methods of software development and operations.
Build foundational capabilities for AI systems to understand context, plan complex work, and use tools.
Design and build distributed systems and cloud infrastructure to run AI workloads reliably and securely at scale.
Integrate AI capabilities into products, engineering systems, and workflows to solve problems for developers.
Drive features from initial design through implementation, production, and operational readiness.
Contribute to the team's technical direction through design reviews, code reviews, and mentoring other engineers.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, or Rust (or equivalent experience).
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire and every two years thereafter.
Experience designing, building, and delivering scalable, production-grade software systems or cloud services (preferred).
Strong technical fundamentals in distributed systems, concurrency, cloud architecture, or backend systems (preferred).
Demonstrated ability to own complex technical problems and drive solutions from design through production (preferred).
Experience building AI-powered applications, agentic systems, or developer platforms (preferred).
Experience with distributed systems, workflow engines, schedulers, stateful services, or large-scale cloud infrastructure (preferred).
Experience designing platforms, APIs, SDKs, or extensibility systems used by other developers (preferred).
Distributed Systems
Machine Learning Operations
Azure
Kubernetes
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
Python
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript
C
Containers
Site Reliability Engineering
Observability
Capacity Planning
Workflow Engines
Orchestration Systems
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Fabric
C#
Python
JavaScript
React
Knockout
AWS
Azure SQL DB
Azure Cosmos DB
Azure PostgreSQL
Azure Data Factory
Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Service Bus
Azure Event Grid
Power BI
Log Analytics
Application Insights
Prometheus
Grafana
Microsoft Sentinel
Generative AI
LLMs
RAG
C
C++
Java