Senior Software Engineer

The AI Frameworks team at Microsoft builds the foundational software that powers advanced machine learning across all major Microsoft products—including Windows, Office, Bing, and more. Our work bridges the latest AI models and diverse hardware, enabling seamless AI experiences from supercomputers to mobile devices.

This role targets infrastructure engineers. As a member of the Engineering Systems team, you will focus on cloud security, infrastructure as code, monitoring large distributed systems, CICD, build, and the deployment of internal tooling. You will provide workflow improvements and stability to enable the AI Frameworks team to do more, faster, and more efficiently across an array of hardware and programming languages.

This is a technical role: it requires hands-on design and development skills. We seek candidates with hands-on experience building and maintaining infrastructure for large-scale C++ and/or Python projects ideally hosted in Github or Azure DevOps.

We foster a collaborative, growth-oriented environment where engineers are empowered to innovate and share knowledge. An entrepreneurial approach and ability to take initiative and move fast are essential.

As a senior engineer, the common tasks of the job would include, but not be limited to:

• Perform software development in C/C++, bash, Python, YAML, Powershell, and other relevant languages to support AI infrastructure.
• Partnering with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for one or more complex scenarios. 
• Providing technical leadership for the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. 
• Mentor and guide engineers to produce extensible, maintainable code used across Microsoft.
• Proactively seeking new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.
• Embodying our Culture and Values

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements: 

Ability 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• A technical background and solid foundation in software engineering principles and architecture design 
• An intellectual curiosity and passion about learning new technologies 
• Previous cross-team collaboration skills and the desire to collaborate in a team of researchers and developers 
• 3+ years of experience in cloud security and Azure
• 3+ years of experience with Azure DevOps or github
• 1+ years of