Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly

CoreAI is at the forefront of Microsoft’s mission to redefine how software is built and experienced. We are responsible for building the foundational platforms, services, programming models, and developer experiences that power the next generation of applications using Generative AI. Our work enables developers and enterprises to harness the full potential of AI to create intelligent, adaptive, and transformative software. 

CoreAI Cloud Foundation team is part of broader Azure organization with a mission to empower developers to quickly build and manage highly scalable distributed applications on Azure. The team is responsible for some of the most popular and fastest growing Azure services like Azure Container Apps, Azure SRE Agent, Azure App Service (WebApps), Azure Functions, Azure API Management, and Azure Logic Apps. These services cater to thousands of developers across the globe to develop and manage Web, Mobile, API, Event-Driven and IoT applications, as well as hosting next-gen AI workloads. Besides serving a multitude of industry sectors, our platform hosts mission critical applications for many Fortune 500 companies. 

Bringing simplicity to our customers creates challenging engineering opportunities in areas like scalability, high-density, multi-tenancy, high availability, user experience and developer tools. 

As the services grow (millions of machines powering the back-end) and the pace is always increasing (adding new scale units every week), we are looking for engineers that are passionate about managing services which span across many continents and time zones, live site excellence, monitoring (our goal is to deliver a world class availability and stability to our customers while keeping the service secure and safe) and engineering improvements. Our goal is always to automate solutions to existing problems through code and move on to the next challenges. Experience working in a services environment and/or building developer tools and libraries are highly desired. 

Automate incident response and eliminate operational toil with an autonomous agent that diagnoses issues, orchestrates mitigations, and optimizes cloud operations with intelligent precision.

We are looking for engineers who are passionate about building new products while also managing a globally distributed service. An ideal candidate who can produce high quality solutions independently but will contribute to and benefit from a collaborative and diverse team environment both locally and across geo. A candidate who can wear many hats, learn quickly and change direction when needed. A candidate who can use appropriate artificial intelligence (AI) tools and practices across the software development lifecycle in a disciplined manner. 

In this role you will help to build and deliver the next set of services, features and developer tools that will define how applications are developed and hosted on Azure. You'll be working on both open source and platform components written in a variety of programming languages. 

This is a unique opportunity to work on large scale distributed systems and implement initiatives that are key to Microsoft's cloud strategy. 

In CoreAI Cloud Foundation team, you own features from the design phase through implementation to production. As part of this ownership, you are expected to help support your features by actively participating in an on-call rotation (DRI), which includes creating/updating SOPs, Troubleshooting Guides, monitoring systems, mitigating/restoring incidents, and deep-dive analysis of root causes of outages. This position is collaborative – requires working with many partner teams, learning and understanding how to use their technology.

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance 

• Master's 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 Bachelor's 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.
• Hands on experience with distributed systems and services in the cloud.
• Proven ability tracking complex technical issues for running online services. 

• Experience with .NET based systems is a plus. 

• Experience using Linux, Docker, Kubernetes is a plus. 

• Experience using public cloud services including Azure, AWS or Google Cloud.