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Senior Software Engineer, Foundry IQ - CoreAI

Microsoft
Redmond, WA
Hybrid
Full-time
$120k - $261k
1d ago

Apt Insight

You will join Microsoft’s Data Governance team within CoreAI, building secure cloud infrastructure for Azure AI Search and enterprise AI applications. Your work will span networking, identity, encryption, privacy, observability, and billing capabilities that help protect customer data and support reliable search services. You will own features from design through deployment and production support, collaborating across teams and contributing to service operations. The role includes a shared on-call rotation and is hybrid, with three days per week onsite in Redmond, Washington.

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Responsibilities

Collaborate with product managers and partner teams to define customer requirements and acceptance criteria for infrastructure features.
Design distributed services and document security, privacy, reliability, scalability, and performance tradeoffs.
Implement, test, debug, and refactor production code and APIs, using automated tests and staged rollouts.
Coordinate feature and release plans, manage cross-team dependencies, and mentor peers through design and code reviews.
Participate in a shared on-call rotation, diagnose provisioning and service incidents, restore service, and improve recovery procedures.
Use telemetry, monitoring, and automation to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance and reduce recurring operational work.

Qualifications

A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and at least 4 years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
Coding experience in one or more languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, or government security screening requirements.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice to Have
A bachelor's degree and 8 or more years of technical engineering experience, a master's degree and 6 or more years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
Experience developing C#/.NET services or automating Azure resource provisioning and deployment.
Experience with cloud networking, identity and access controls, encryption, data-retention or deletion controls, telemetry, monitoring, usage metering, billing pipelines, distributed systems, REST APIs, or cloud services on Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform.

Work Environment

The position is hybrid, with three days per week onsite.
The role is based in Redmond, Washington.
You will work with the Data Governance team in Microsoft's CoreAI organization and collaborate with product managers, partner teams, and compute infrastructure colleagues.
You will participate in a shared on-call rotation.

Benefits & Perks

The stated U.S. base pay range is USD $119,800–$234,700 per year; a separate range of USD $160,200–$261,000 per year applies to the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
The listing says certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation, with further information available through Microsoft's pay and benefits page.
The role offers experience owning infrastructure features across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
You can develop skills in resilient system design, automation, operational diagnostics, and mentoring through design and code reviews.