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Senior Software Engineer - CoreAI

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CAFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer to design, build, operate and maintain core platform components and distributed systems powering Azure Functions, focusing on reliability, performance, scalability, security, and diagnosability within the Azure Functions Platform team.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, test, and ship platform capabilities and services for Azure Functions.
  • Build and maintain large-scale distributed systems, with a focus on reliability, availability, scalability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.
  • Own services through their full lifecycle, including design, development, deployment, monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, repair work, and continuous improvement.
  • Use logs, metrics, traces, telemetry, testing, and automation to proactively identify issues and improve production health.
  • Investigate and resolve complex technical issues in running online services, including problems that span multiple components or dependencies.
  • Develop and improve platform tooling and automation for safe deployments, regression detection, rollback, and operational readiness.
  • Partner with engineers and stakeholders across teams to define requirements, make sound technical decisions, and deliver maintainable solutions.
  • Contribute to architecture and design reviews, code reviews, engineering standards, and technical direction for platform components.
  • Mentor other engineers and help strengthen engineering practices across the team.

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.

Skills

Required:Distributed systems design and development
Nice to have:Platform tooling and automationDiagnostics and observabilityCloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)Containers and orchestration (Kubernetes)
Last updated Oct 2, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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