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Software Engineer II - Core AI

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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About the role

Azure Intelligent Container Platform role within CoreAI, focusing on building scalable, fault-tolerant AI infrastructure and services for Azure AI platforms at global scale.

Responsibilities

  • Build for massive scale: Design and develop highly available, scalable distributed systems running across global public and private datacenters.
  • Engineer for resilience: Build platforms that are fault-tolerant, self-managing, self-healing, and designed for operational excellence.
  • Push cloud-native innovation: Leverage Docker, Kubernetes, open-source technologies, and cloud platforms to solve complex infrastructure challenges.
  • Make AI production-ready: Turn rapidly evolving AI and cognitive technologies into reliable, secure, performant, and easy-to-use Azure services.
  • Own the full lifecycle: Drive solutions from architecture and system design through implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
  • Solve hard problems: Tackle challenges in distributed systems, performance, availability, scalability, security, privacy, and user experience.
  • Ship technology that matters: Build products and platforms that enable AI experiences for customers around the world.

Qualifications

  • AI-native mindset: Proficient in modern AI technologies and tools, with hands-on experience using generative AI, AI coding assistants/agents, and AI/ML frameworks in day-to-day engineering.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, quality mindset, and production-grade software.
  • Education: BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
  • Industry experience: 3–5+ years of software development, architecture, system design, or product engineering.
  • Programming: Strong hands-on programming in C#, Python, or Go.
  • Production engineering: Experience with Web APIs, performance/load testing, security, privacy; building reliable production services.
  • Ownership & collaboration: Strong communication and collaboration skills in a fast-paced, global environment.

Skills

Required:AI technologies familiarityProgramming languagesWeb APIsSecurity and privacyCollaboration

Benefits

  • Microsoft employee benefits (explicitly stated as being an equal opportunity employer)
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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