2 days ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define the architectural vision and long-term technical strategy for the Perception Platform.
- Create scalable multi-tenant reference architectures covering tenant isolation, identity, authorization, configuration, data protection, deployment, sovereignty, compliance, and operations.
- Establish reusable architectural principles, system boundaries, interfaces, contracts, and platform abstractions across distributed systems and engineering teams.
- Architect RAG, agentic and multi-agent systems, AI memory, identity and authorization, safety and trust boundaries, and secure integration with enterprise data and services.
- Define automation, observability, resilience, disaster recovery, failure isolation, validation, and operational architectures for globally distributed AI and cloud services.
- Drive architectural convergence and evolve existing production systems toward modular, reusable, configurable, secure, and scalable platforms.
- Lead architecture reviews and build-versus-reuse, service-boundary, API-contract, technology-selection, and architectural tradeoff decisions.
- Partner with engineering, product, security, privacy, compliance, and platform leaders to establish roadmaps and strategic technology investments.
- Influence architecture across organizational boundaries and mentor senior engineers, architects, and technical leaders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience designing and building complex software systems, distributed systems, or cloud platforms, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Significant experience architecting large-scale distributed systems, multi-tenant services, enterprise platforms, cloud infrastructure, or AI-powered production systems.
- Experience establishing reference architectures, architectural principles, platform standards, system boundaries, and reusable patterns across multiple teams or organizations.
- Experience designing generative AI, RAG, semantic retrieval, memory, reasoning, tool-use, evaluation, grounding, safety, and agentic or multi-agent architectures.
- Deep knowledge of identity, authentication, authorization, RBAC, least privilege, delegated authorization, workload identities, service identities, agent identities, and multi-tenant security boundaries.
- Experience with Kubernetes, containerized services, compute, storage, networking, service-to-service communication, configuration management, Infrastructure as Code, automated deployment, and CI/CD.
- Experience architecting highly available and resilient services, observability and diagnostics, deployment validation, operational architecture, and production-system modernization.
- Ability to evaluate tradeoffs involving security, reliability, scalability, performance, cost, operational complexity, developer productivity, and time-to-market.
- Strong technical communication, organizational influence without direct authority, and demonstrated ability to mentor senior technical leaders.
- Preferred: master’s degree and 8+ years of relevant experience, or bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $142,800-$274,800 per year; different ranges apply to the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position will remain open for a minimum of 5 days and accept applications on an ongoing basis until filled.
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About Microsoft
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.