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The Senior Software Engineer - CoreAI joins the API Management and AI Gateway team within the CoreAI organization. This role involves designing and delivering next-generation services, features, and developer tools for a globally distributed service. You will lead system design and architecture, write performant code, and manage production deployments while ensuring high availability and scalability. Key responsibilities include maintaining live site health, conducting root cause analyses, and building foundational platform components. You will utilize programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python to solve complex problems in multi-tenancy and high-density environments. The work focuses on managing the full API lifecycle, specifically securing and governing AI tools for Agentic, Web, Mobile, Event-Driven, and IoT applications within a large-scale distributed system.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.
Lead system design and architecture to ensure security, compliance, and scalability for distributed systems.
Write extensible, maintainable, and performant code while conducting rigorous code reviews.
Manage project planning, experimentation, and safe deployments across distributed environments.
Maintain live site health by developing incident response playbooks and performing root cause analyses.
Build developer tools and automate production workflows to improve engineering practices.
Design foundational platform components and reusable building blocks to accelerate team innovation.
Influence the product roadmap by aligning technical direction with business goals and customer feedback.
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 (or equivalent experience).
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Bachelor'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).
6+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production-grade software and services at scale with a proven track record of delivering high-impact (preferred).
Proven experience in designing and building distributed systems and cloud-based services (preferred).
Understanding of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP (preferred).
Hands-on experience developing in AI-enhanced environments using tools like GitHub Copilot or similar (preferred).
Hands-on experience with generative AI API platforms such as Azure AI Foundry, OpenAI, Claude, or similar (preferred).
Azure AI
Python
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript
C
Azure OpenAI
Azure ML
CI/CD
DevOps
Distributed Systems
Machine Learning
Azure AI Studio
Azure AI Content Safety
Software Development Lifecycle
Observability
Telemetry