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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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Senior Software Engineer, Foundry Agents - CoreAI joins the Foundry Agents team to build and evolve large-scale, cloud-native systems supporting the end-to-end lifecycle of advanced agentic applications. The role involves developing services for secure enterprise deployment, governed tool integration, model fine-tuning, and observability features to evaluate and optimize agents in production. You will design distributed systems and cloud services while improving developer and researcher workflows through better tooling, abstractions, and automation. Key responsibilities include debugging interactions across models, data, and infrastructure while maintaining high standards for code quality and reliability. The position requires proficiency in programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. This role addresses the technical challenge of creating reliable, autonomous AI agents by building robust platforms that manage agentic traces and ensure secure execution at scale.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197500 from 2196 postings across 133 companies.
Build and scale services for secure agent deployment, execution, and governed tool integration.
Design and implement distributed systems and cloud services to run agents at enterprise scale.
Develop tools and abstractions to improve developer and researcher workflows for fine-tuning and evaluation.
Debug and optimize interactions between models, data, and infrastructure components.
Contribute to technical designs and implementations across the full software development lifecycle.
Maintain high standards for code quality, testing, reliability, and operational excellence.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of experience coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 8+ years of engineering experience with the specified programming languages.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 12+ years of engineering experience with the specified programming languages.
5+ years of technical engineering experience designing and delivering highly available, large-scale cloud services and distributed systems.
3+ years of technical engineering experience with machine learning or Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems.
Ability to pass a Microsoft Cloud background check every two years.
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