Business Group Overview
The AI Platform organization at Microsoft builds the end-to-end Azure AI stack/PaaS and is core to Azure's innovation and differentiation, as well as all of Microsoft's flagship products, from Office to Teams, to Xbox. We are the team building Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, Cognitive Services, and the global Azure AI infrastructure for running the largest AI workloads on the planet.
Within AI Platform, the AI Foundry team enables developers to quickly and easily build, train, deploy, manage, and consume machine learning models. Our Team is the backbone of this mission.
The team designs, builds, and operates the largest scale engineering system in the industry for Large Language Models and GenAI Services. Key areas that we are working on
Building and Scaling our Inferencing Cloud across our flagships AOAI Service and growing the Model as A Service model Families.
Expand the Gen AI Model Offerings to more model providers, and best and latest models and provide a unified experience across AOAI and MAAS/MAAP for Azure AI customers.
Job Purpose Overview
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we're dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will drive the design, development, and support of the platform that powers Azure Machine Learning and Azure OpenAI. You'll work across teams to help make the whole organization successful. Your responsibilities will include the following:
Design, implement, and support scalable, reliable, high-performance services.
Write clean and concise code with unit tests.
Design, implement, and support new features as well as extend existing systems.
Investigate live site issues and implement and deploy fixes.
Participate in an on-call rotation.
Drive quality engineering via code reviews and design discussions.
Build and champion AI-powered and agentic automation to eliminate manual toil and improve engineering efficiency.
Qualifications
Qualifications (Required and Preferred)
10+ years of experience writing production code in building internet-scale services and distributed systems.
Ability to debug, read code, and work on a large and increasing codebase.
Engineering knowledge of machine learning systems and data pipelines.
Experience mentoring other developers, working with partners, and being a team player.
Excellent communication, ability to collaborate with diverse remote teamsand presentation skills.
Experience with large-scaledistributed systems design and implementation
Passion for machine learning, artificial intelligence and agentic solution
Familiarity with Azure is a plus
Other RequirementsAbility to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters.
Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
