Join the Azure AI Platform air gapped engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer delivering secure, scalable, and mission critical AI infrastructure for Microsoft’s most sensitive cloud environments. We build foundational services that power Azure Machine Learning, Azure AI Services, Azure OpenAI, and Microsoft Foundry capabilities across air gapped, sovereign, and commercial clouds.
Our team aligns with the Foundry Product Way, which emphasizes first principles thinking, customer first innovation, and rapid learning cycles. We design systems that are not only scalable and reliable, but adaptive to a rapidly evolving AI landscape, requiring engineers who thrive in complex, high impact spaces and who build using modern AI accelerated workflows. This environment is built for engineers who want to do their life’s best work and contribute to the foundation for every AI application on the planet.
We operate as full stack AI native builders, leveraging modern tooling and AI systems to accelerate development speed, enhance product quality, and maximize time spent solving deep technical problems.
Spanning Azure Machine Learning, Azure AI Services, Azure OpenAI, and Microsoft Foundry, we build and operate the platform that brings frontier models and critical AI capabilities to every person and organization on the planet—so they can achieve more.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
• Design, build, and enhance secure, scalable, and reliable distributed services for AI workloads across air gapped and sovereign cloud environments, demonstrating depth in system design and cloud scale engineering.
• Apply engineering fundamentals with leadership-level rigor, including automation, telemetry, resiliency engineering, performance optimization, and security by default implementation across services.
• Develop robust automation and platform tooling to improve deployment, testing, observability, and operational workflows, reducing friction and increasing engineering velocity.
• Work as an AI native full stack builder, using tools like GitHub Copilot and other approved Large Language Model (LLM) based workflows to accelerate design, coding, debugging, and prototyping, while following Foundry’s security and compliance guidance.
• Lead investigations during on call rotations, diagnose complex issues, drive root cause analyses, and deliver durable system improvements that enhance long term reliability.
• Incorporate customer, partner, and field feedback into technical decisions—aligning with the Foundry Product Way’s focus on customer first innovation and continuous learning loops.
• Collaborate effectively across teams, contributing to clear technical documentation, sharing insights, and modeling the Foundry culture of curiosity, craftsmanship, and high quality execution.
Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications
Other requirements
Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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.
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