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Senior Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond, WA$119.8k - $234.7kFull-timePosted 4d ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure responsible for designing, building, and running services that route and prioritize AI requests and match them to available computing capacity across Microsoft's global infrastructure to support Azure OpenAI Service and related products.

Responsibilities

  • Design - Own the design of key parts of our platform for routing AI traffic and managing computing capacity. Write design proposals, compare options, and make sure designs meet goals for speed, reliability, scale, and cost.
  • Coding - Write clear, secure, well-tested code and set a good example for the team. Give thoughtful, timely code reviews that help others grow.
  • Implement - Break work into clear, dependable milestones with program managers. Use feature flags and gradual rollouts to test changes safely, measure their impact, and roll back quickly when needed.
  • Reliability and Supportability - Take part in the on-call rotation as a designated responsible individual (DRI). Add monitoring and dashboards, improve troubleshooting guides, and help reduce how often incidents happen.
  • Understand User Requirements - Work with product managers and partner teams to understand what customers need and turn those needs into clear technical requirements.
  • Engineering Excellence - Build security, privacy, and compliance into every stage of your work, from design to deployment. Automate testing and releases, and share what you learn with the team.
  • AI-Native Development - Use artificial intelligence (AI) tools across the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from writing code and tests to investigating live issues. Take responsibility for AI-generated work and help teammates do the same.

Qualifications

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

Skills

Required:Distributed systems
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