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Senior Software Engineer - CTJ - Poly

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Reston, VA, Redmond, WA, Annapolis Junction, MD$119.8k - $234.7kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer for Azure AI Platform air-gapped engineering team, delivering AI capabilities in sovereign and air-gapped environments (Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Foundry, Azure Machine Learning, Azure AI Services) for security-sensitive government workloads. Lead design and implementation, collaborate across Azure AI product teams, mentor engineers, and drive reliability and deployment tooling in complex, multi-codebase environments.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and hands-on implementation of software and infrastructure improvements across the team’s portfolio of Azure AI services in air-gapped and sovereign environments.
  • Own engineering initiatives from problem definition and technical design through testing, rollout, and operational follow-through, incorporating customer feedback and managing risks and dependencies.
  • Work across multiple codebases and architectures, partnering with product teams to integrate capabilities and resolve challenges involving service dependencies, networking, identity, and infrastructure.
  • Develop reusable automation, deployment tooling, release validation, and observability that improve reliability and engineering efficiency across multiple services.
  • Participate in the team’s on-call rotations, investigate issues across the supported service portfolio, and coordinate with partner teams to restore service and deliver fixes that prevent recurrence.
  • Mentor engineers and provide technical guidance through design discussions, code reviews, and documentation, sharing approaches and lessons that other services and teams can apply.
  • Evaluate and apply approved AI-assisted development tools, including GitHub Copilot, to improve development workflows while maintaining security and engineering quality.

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:Programming languages
Nice to have:Cloud / distributed systems
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