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Senior Software Engineer - AI Infrastructure

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond, WA, Mountain View, CA$119.8k - $234.7kFull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Senior software engineer role in the Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure organization, building foundational platform services to deploy, manage, govern, and operate large-scale AI workloads across Microsoft.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems that power the lifecycle of AI models and services across Microsoft.
  • Drive architecture, implementation, and evolution of cloud platform capabilities to improve deployment velocity, reliability, governance, and operational excellence for AI workloads.
  • Partner with engineering, product management, and research teams to translate complex requirements into scalable platform solutions.
  • Lead the development of highly available, secure, and observable services leveraging SRE principles and best practices.
  • Improve developer productivity by creating self-service experiences, automation, and tooling for onboarding, deployment, monitoring, and management of AI applications.
  • Analyze production systems, identify performance and reliability opportunities, and drive continuous improvements through data-driven engineering decisions.
  • Mentor engineers, contribute to technical strategy, and influence engineering excellence through design reviews, knowledge sharing, and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience).

Skills

Required:Distributed systems designCloud platform capabilitiesSite Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Nice to have:Developer experience and toolingObservability and incident managementLeadership and mentoring

Benefits

  • Compensation ranges provided: base pay USD 119,800 - 234,700 per year across the U.S.; higher ranges in SF Bay Area and NYC: USD 160,200 - 261,000 per year.
Last updated Oct 9, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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