Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer - CoreAI (Foundry Observability)
$120K–$304K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 20, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years required; equivalent experience accepted. Preferred alternatives: Master's degree plus 6+ years, or Bachelor's degree plus 8+ years. Also preferred: 5+ years designing and delivering highly available, large-scale cloud services and distributed systems, and 3+ years with machine learning or AI systems.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Builds and evolves cloud-native platforms for enterprise-scale AI agents, including observability, evaluation, optimization, and reliable deployment.
What you'll do
- Design and deliver scalable, reliable, secure AI services and distributed cloud systems for agents.
- Develop observability, automation, deployment safety, and tools for fine-tuning, evaluation, and optimization workflows.
- Debug and optimize model, data, and infrastructure interactions; contribute across the software development lifecycle and collaborate with CoreAI and Azure teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice to have
- Master's degree and 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor's degree and 8+ years, in the stated fields and coding languages, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years designing and delivering highly available, large-scale cloud services and distributed systems; demonstrated AI systems proficiency; 3+ years with machine learning or AI systems.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary); USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base salary); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python
AI focus
Builds AI-agent platforms and services, including agent deployment, observability, evaluation, optimization, fine-tuning, and training workflows.
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