21 hours ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the overall design of AI traffic routing, prioritization, and computing-capacity management across regions.
- Write and review secure, well-tested code for routing, prioritization, and capacity planning.
- Guide design reviews and establish reusable coding practices.
- Partner with product and program managers to execute a long-term roadmap through feature flags, gradual rollouts, impact measurement, and rollback procedures.
- Participate in the on-call rotation as a designated responsible individual for critical AI services.
- Lead incident reviews and improve monitoring, supportability, and service reliability.
- Partner with product, research, and infrastructure teams to prepare new AI models and capabilities for launch.
- Support security, privacy, compliance, threat modeling, and safe deployment practices.
- Mentor engineers and promote the use of AI tools and agents across the software development lifecycle.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience building distributed systems with C#, Java, Go, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: Master’s degree with 8+ years of experience, or bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: 5+ years running distributed services on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Preferred: 3+ years working with systems that route or schedule traffic or use optimization methods to allocate computing resources.
- Preferred: experience with Python, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Preferred: experience with AI or machine learning infrastructure, including production model serving or GPU fleet management.
- Preferred: experience leading projects across at least three partner teams from design through launch and operation.
- Preferred: experience supporting highly available services on call and reducing incidents measurably.
Benefits
- Typical U.S. base pay range is $142,800–$274,800 per year, with a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range of $188,000–$304,200 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for a minimum of five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
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About Microsoft
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