Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

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1 day ago
Redmond, WA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$120k - $261k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and optimize distributed AI platform components for availability, performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
  • Lead incident-management efforts and reduce Time to Detect, Time to Mitigate, and Time to Resolve across AI training and inference workloads.
  • Build automated validation frameworks and test suites to identify regressions and maintain system stability.
  • Optimize GPU and compute fleets for resource utilization, throughput, and operational efficiency.
  • Develop platform services, internal tools, automation, telemetry, and observability capabilities that improve engineering workflows and developer velocity.
  • Write production code, debug complex system issues, resolve root causes, and prevent incident recurrence.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and lead initiatives across infrastructure, security, networking, and service teams.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree with 6+ years of experience, or a bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience writing and debugging high-quality production code in large codebases for internet-scale services, distributed systems, or compute platforms.
  • Experience building automated validation frameworks and developer-productivity tools.
  • Experience serving as a technical lead, mentoring engineers, and executing multi-team initiatives.
  • Experience with AI training and inference infrastructure, incident management, and reliability measures such as TTD, TTM, and TTR.

Benefits

  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The position is open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.

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About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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