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Software Engineer II AI Infrastructure

Microsoft

Job Location:

Redmond, WA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 102100 - 202200

Posted: 5 October 2026 (15 hours ago)

Application Deadline: 2 January 2027

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Department:

Software Engineering

Job Summary

Overview

Team Purpose

The future of AI and cloud computing depends on highly reliable scalable and efficient distributed systems and our team is building the platform that powers that future.

As part of the AI Infra team you will work on large-scale infrastructure that supports some of the worlds most demanding cloud services and AI workloads. The infrastructure you will work on powers OpenAI and OSS model hosting large-scale inferencing and the backend for Microsoft Copilots across the largest capacity fleets in the industry. You will help design and build foundational systems that enable reliability performance and operational excellence at global scale.

Role Summary

As a Software Engineer II you will design develop and operate distributed systems that power mission-critical cloud services. You will collaborate across engineering disciplines to build resilient scalable and highly available platforms leveraging strong software engineering fundamentals and data-driven decision making. You will contribute throughout the software development lifecycle from architecture and implementation to deployment monitoring and continuous improvement.

This opportunity will allow you to:

- Accelerate your technical and career growth by solving complex distributed systems challenges at cloud scale.

- Develop deep expertise in large-scale infrastructure reliability engineering system architecture and operational excellence.

- Hone your collaboration and leadership skills while working across teams to deliver high-impact solutions that serve millions of users and workloads.

Microsoft Culture

Microsofts mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect integrity and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond

Responsibilities

- Design develop test deploy and operate large-scale distributed systems and platform services that deliver reliable scalable secure and high-performance experiences.

- Build and enhance infrastructure capabilities resource management services and workload orchestration solutions that optimize system efficiency utilization availability and performance.

- Develop software and platform features that support capacity management service scalability policy-driven decision making workload placement prioritization and operational flexibility across distributed environments.

- Collaborate with engineers product stakeholders and cross-functional partners to define technical requirements influence architecture decisions and deliver high-quality solutions that address customer and business needs.

- Develop test and maintain control plane services written in C# hosted on Kubernetes (AKS) clusters. .

- Analyze complex production issues identify root causes and implement sustainable solutions that enhance scalability maintainability efficiency and service health. Provide operational support and DRI (on-call) responsibilities for the service.

- Contribute to engineering best practices through technical design reviews code quality initiatives knowledge sharing mentorship and a culture of innovation accountability inclusion and continuous learning.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python
- OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python
OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C C C# Java JavaScript or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
OOP (Object Oriented Programming) proficiency and practical familiarity with common code design patterns
2years of experience withservice developmentin a distributed environmentina dev-ops roleincluding concurrencymanagementand stateful resource management
Hands-on experience with public cloud services at the IaaS level

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Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102100 - $202200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $133800 - $219200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.

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