Software Engineer - Azure AI Search

Overview

At Microsoft, you collaborate with passionate innovators to envision what's next and take your career further in a world of boundless opportunity driven by AI, cloud, openness, and a growth mindset.
You will join the Core AI organization, where you will help build Microsoft's Azure AI platform as a service, powering flagship products from Office and Teams to Xbox and enabling the next generation of AI-powered Copilots and intelligent Agents. Azure AI Search sits at the heart of this mission, providing the enterprise-grade data storage, retrieval, and grounding capabilities that allow large language models to reason over trusted enterprise data at global scale.

In this role, you design, build, and operate the core retrieval, search, and data access systems that power Azure AI Search. You work on globally distributed, largescale cloud services where performance, relevance, reliability, and security are critical, and where your work directly impacts how developers and customers build AI powered applications. You join this team to tackle deep technical challenges in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure, while owning features end to end and influencing product direction. You will grow your expertise in large-scale service engineering, modern retrieval architecture, and live-site operations, while collaborating with engineers who value high engineering standards, learning, and inclusion.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we're dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to show up with purpose and continuously improve each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.

Responsibilities

• Uses appropriate artificial intelligence (AI) tools and practices across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) in a disciplined manner.

• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable with minimal supervision.

• Proactively validates assumptions using debugging, testing, logging, and telemetry. Leads incident retrospectives to identify root causes, implement fixes, and prevent recurrence. Investigates issues while maintaining privacy and security, with minimal supervision.

• Collaborates with partner teams to integrate features end to end, ensuring testing, livesite readiness, security, scalability and performance with minimal supervision.

• Maintains secure live site operations through on call rotations, rapidly mitigating issues with least privilege access. Improves reliability by strengthening troubleshooting guides, telemetry, automation, and escalating issues appropriately.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to: C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python or equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screening:

• • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position requires passing the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems in production.
• Working knowledge of storage and retrieval systems.
• Proficiency in C# with experience debugging and troubleshooting production services.
• Understanding of performance, scalability, and reliability considerations in cloud services.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
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This 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.