Microsoft Cloud is looking to strengthen quality, reliability, security, and customer trust by designing solutions that prevent issues before they happen, embed AI-powered automation, and turn signals into actions that deliver measurable customer impact.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in Python, C++, C-Sharp, Java, and JavaScript, enabling development across AI model pipelines, services, and tooling.
- Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns, directly supporting efficient training, inference, and optimization workflows.
- Demonstrated experience applying object‑oriented and modular design principles to machine‑learning or AI‑powered systems.
- Experience building and operating distributed systems, including services that support model hosting, vector search, data processing pipelines, or multi‑node compute.
- Hands‑on experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure or AWS, including scalable compute, storage, and service integration commonly used in AI workloads.
- Experience with JavaScript/Node.js/React, enabling integration of AI capabilities into full‑stack applications, user experiences, or agentic interfaces.
- Familiarity with building or contributing to platform components (e.g., APIs, microservices, CI/CD pipelines) that support AI model deployment or experimentation.
Responsibilities
- Leads by example within the team to produce extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant code that adheres to design specifications.
- Optimize, debug, and refactor code to improve performance and maintainability, and effectiveness.
- Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) in monitoring system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions for simple problems, and recommends actions to restore system/product/service by following the playbook
- Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.
- Identifies dependencies and incorporates them into the development of design documents for a product, application, service or platform.
- Leads discussions for product/service architecture and develop complex design specifications.
- Review code to assure compliance to quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution area.
Other
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- 4–6+ years engineering experience, or Master’s degree with proven hands‑on coding experience, or equivalent experience building large‑scale or AI‑driven systems.
- Agile methodologies, iterative delivery, and modern software development workflows.
