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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
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As a Senior Software Engineer - CoreAI (Foundry Observability), you will join the Foundry Observability team to build and evolve large-scale, cloud-native systems. You will develop platforms and services spanning the full lifecycle of advanced agentic applications, including model inferencing, customization, and production optimization. Your daily responsibilities involve designing distributed systems for reliable enterprise-scale agent execution, improving researcher workflows through automation, and debugging interactions across models, data, and infrastructure. You will utilize programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python to deliver high-availability cloud services. The role focuses on solving technical challenges in observability, deployment safety, and operational efficiency to enable the development of reliable, autonomous, and high-impact AI agents within a production environment.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.
Design and develop large-scale AI services and platforms focused on scalability, reliability, and security.
Implement distributed systems and cloud services to run agents at enterprise scale.
Build reusable platforms and frameworks to improve observability, automation, and operational efficiency.
Create tools and abstractions to improve developer workflows for fine-tuning, evaluation, and optimization.
Debug and optimize interactions across models, data, and infrastructure.
Execute technical designs and implementations across the full software development lifecycle.
Maintain high standards for code quality, testing, and operational excellence.
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, or Python.
Equivalent experience to the required degree and years of experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
5+ years of technical engineering experience designing and delivering highly available, large-scale cloud services and distributed systems (preferred).
3+ years of technical engineering experience with machine learning or AI systems (preferred).
Demonstrated proficiency in leveraging AI to build systems and a passion for making this technology accessible (preferred).
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