6 days ago
Suzhou, China or Shanghai, ChinaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define the technical vision, architecture, and long-term strategy for the next-generation deployment platform.
- Lead the transformation toward an AI-native deployment system in which humans and AI agents are first-class participants.
- Define platform capabilities, APIs, abstractions, telemetry, controls, and safety boundaries for agent-driven deployment workflows.
- Apply AI and agent technologies to deployment, validation, troubleshooting, mitigation, recovery, and related engineering workflows.
- Lead architecture and design for complex distributed systems operating across large-scale Microsoft cloud infrastructure.
- Modernize the deployment architecture to be modular, scalable, observable, resilient, and independently evolvable.
- Solve ambiguous, systemic technical challenges and create durable architectural solutions.
- Establish engineering standards for reliability, security, observability, scalability, quality, and operational excellence.
- Drive technical alignment across organizational boundaries and resolve architecture, dependency, and ownership challenges.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field plus 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: master’s degree plus 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree plus 12+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
- Deep software engineering expertise designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems or cloud platforms.
- Hands-on coding and system-design skills with the ability to solve complex architectural and engineering problems.
- Experience defining architecture and providing technical leadership for complex, multi-team engineering initiatives.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, identify high-impact technical investments, and translate long-term vision into architecture and execution.
- Understanding of reliability, scalability, observability, security, performance, and operational excellence for production services.
- Understanding of AI/LLM and agent technologies and their application to platform architecture and engineering systems.
- Ability to influence technical decisions and align stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for engineering and leadership audiences.
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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.