Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer - AI Infrastructure
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA +1 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- Redmond, WA
Mountain View, CA - Experience
- Required: 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, alongside a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. Preferred alternatives: master's degree plus 6+ years, or bachelor's degree plus 8+ years, or equivalent experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates scalable cloud platform services for deploying, monitoring, governing, and managing AI models and workloads across Microsoft.
What you'll do
- Develop and evolve distributed systems and cloud platform capabilities to improve AI workload deployment, reliability, governance, and operations.
- Build self-service experiences, automation, and tooling; monitor production services and drive performance and reliability improvements.
- Lead technical architecture and strategy, collaborate across teams, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in a listed language, or equivalent experience.
- Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud services with high availability, reliability, and performance requirements.
- Experience operating production services, including observability, incident management, capacity planning, and service health monitoring.
- Experience building developer platforms, control planes, orchestration systems, workflow engines, or platform services used by engineering teams.
Nice to have
- Master's degree and 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor's degree and 8+ years, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, containers, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD systems.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes
AI focus
Build platform infrastructure for the lifecycle and operation of AI models, services, and workloads.
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