Senior Software Engineer
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · Cloud Engineering
In short
Senior Software Engineer to build autonomous operational capabilities for COSMIC, modernizing Microsoft's compute platform. Responsibilities include designing and implementing distributed platform components for AI agent coordination, ensuring safety boundaries, and driving production readiness.
Responsibilities
- Own the design, implementation, rollout, and operation of significant COSMIC App Platform features and services from requirements through production.
- Build distributed platform and orchestration components that enable AI agents to coordinate and execute deployment, capacity, resiliency, recovery, and optimization workflows at fleet scale.
- Design safety boundaries including sandbox isolation, scoped identity and access, policy and approval checks, auditable execution, rollback, blast-radius containment, and human oversight.
- Drive production readiness through health-gated releases, observability, alerts, runbooks, on-call support, and incident follow-up.
- Build evaluation, experimentation, feedback, and learning loops with measurable system-quality and operational outcomes.
- Translate customer and operational needs into sound designs, testable software, and clear success criteria while resolving cross-team dependencies and delivering end-to-end scenarios.
- Investigate complex production issues using telemetry and data, identify root causes, and deliver durable fixes that improve reliability and supportability.
- Lead feature-level technical reviews, contribute to architecture and roadmap decisions, mentor engineers through design and code reviews, and improve reusable engineering patterns and tooling.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python or Rust.
- 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.
Desired Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems, cloud services, or Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
- Experience owning complex features or services from design through production, including reliability, instrumentation, and supportability.
- Experience with production AI or agent systems, workflow orchestration, control planes, or intelligent automation.
- Experience implementing safety, policy, identity, authorization, observability, evaluation, or approval mechanisms for automated systems.
- Solid coding, debugging, testing, and systems design skills, with attention to maintainability and operational quality.
- Experience using telemetry, experiments, and customer feedback to improve product and system outcomes.
- Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and collaborate effectively across engineering and product disciplines.
Benefits
- The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Skills
CC++C#JavaJavaScriptPythonRustKubernetes
#COSMIC#Agents#AgenticInfrastructure#CloudOperations
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Company
MicrosoftJob Posted
4 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Salary
US$119,800–234,700 / year
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
United States
Qualification
Bachelor, Master
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