12 hours ago
Base Salary
$166k - $331k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, interfaces, extensibility model, and core capabilities of the Agent Platform.
- Architect and help deliver secure, reliable, observable, resilient, and scalable AI agent systems with identity, access controls, and operational safeguards.
- Establish reusable production patterns for agent orchestration, tool integration, context and state management, evaluation, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
- Simplify developer workflows for building, onboarding, testing, deploying, and operating agents consistently.
- Connect platform decisions to intuitive, responsive, and trustworthy customer experiences in agent-powered security workflows.
- Partner with engineering, product, security, research, and platform teams to translate emerging AI capabilities and security requirements into practical solutions.
- Lead through technical judgment and cross-team influence, validate designs through prototypes and code, guide investments, and mentor engineers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree and 15+ years of technical engineering experience, or a master’s degree and 12+ years, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: 5+ years architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems or cloud platforms.
- Preferred: 5+ years designing developer-facing platforms, APIs, SDKs, or extensible infrastructure abstractions.
- Preferred: 3+ years building AI-powered applications or platforms, including experience with agent orchestration, tool integration, evaluation, and production AI security and reliability.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex designs through production, remain hands-on with critical technical decisions, influence engineering direction, mentor engineers, and connect technical decisions to developer and customer experiences.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $165,600–$296,400 per year, with a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range of USD $220,800–$331,200 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position will remain open for at least 5 days and accept applications on an ongoing basis until filled.
- Applicants must pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
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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.