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The Software Engineer 2 - CoreAI joins the Azure Logic Apps team to build platform capabilities for real-time, cloud-scale workflows. This role focuses on evolving Logic Apps to support agentic execution, autonomous task orchestration, and AI-first workflow design. You will lead system design and architecture for distributed systems, authoring design documents and writing performant code for platform and runtime components. Key responsibilities include developing foundational capabilities for AI agents to reason and plan, managing live-site health, and building developer tools for AI-augmented workflows. Required skills include proficiency in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. You will work on integrating AI models, agent frameworks, and reasoning engines into enterprise connectors to solve complex business process automation and workflow orchestration problems.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $196750 from 2601 postings across 154 companies.
Design and author architecture documents for scalable, AI-native, and distributed platform components.
Write extensible, maintainable, and performant code for platform and runtime components.
Develop foundational capabilities for AI agents to reason, plan, and execute tasks across workflows.
Debug complex production issues and lead root cause analyses to improve service reliability.
Build developer tools and automation to improve engineering velocity and AI-augmented workflows.
Influence the product roadmap by analyzing customer feedback, telemetry, and emerging AI technologies.
Design reusable platform services for event-driven architectures and stateful runtimes.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience).
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, or Python (preferred).
4+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production-grade software and services at scale (preferred).
Experience designing, building, and shipping cloud-scale distributed systems, workflow engines, platform services, or event-driven architectures (preferred).
Understanding of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP (preferred).
Experience with AI/LLM-based systems, agent frameworks, reasoning or orchestration systems, or integrating AI capabilities into production services (preferred).
Hands-on experience developing in AI-enhanced environments using tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar (preferred).
C#
Python
Java
C++
JavaScript
C
Distributed Systems
CI/CD
Azure
GitHub
Telemetry
Monitoring
Data Consistency
Automation
Source Control
Service Reliability