About this role
Senior Software Engineer - AI Systems
United States, Washington, Redmond
Job description
Company and benefits
Job number
200057709
Date posted
Oct 21, 2026
Work site
3 days / week in-office
Travel
Less than 25%
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Role type
Individual Contributor
Employment type
Full-Time
Overview
Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.
Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.
The Databases organization delivers trusted, scalable operational AI ready databases that power application development across cloud, hybrid, and on premises environments. Our portfolio includes SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, DocumentDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL, supporting developers as they build AI native applications and run critical workloads at global scale.
Are you excited about the opportunity to help redefine how software organizations work of AI? We are entering a period where AI can change more than how individual engineering tasks are performed. It can change how organizations turn ideas into products, respond to customers, operate services, learn from outcomes, and continuously improve.
The Azure PostgreSQL Database Services team is building toward this future. We envision a new operating model where people establish goals, direction, and boundaries, while AI agents increasingly take responsibility for carrying work across the organization, from understanding an opportunity and developing a plan through engineering, delivery, operations, and learning. People remain central to judgment, creativity, leadership, and accountability, while agents help the organization move with greater speed, continuity, and scale.
We are looking for a Software Engineer to help make this vision real. You will design and build the foundational systems that enable agents to understand organizational context, collaborate with people and other agents, use tools and systems safely, execute complex work, learn from outcomes, and operate reliably at scale. This is an opportunity to work on a new class of systems at the intersection of AI, software engineering, distributed systems, and cloud platforms, and to help shape how software organizations themselves evolve in the AI era.
About the Team:
We are a highly collaborative engineering team working across Azure PostgreSQL, AI, developer experience, and cloud systems. Our work spans database systems, intelligent application development, developer tools and experiences, and new AI-powered approaches to building and operating software.
We work on ambitious technical problems that cross traditional boundaries between databases, distributed systems, cloud platforms, developer infrastructure, and AI. We value deep technical thinking, rapid experimentation, and turning promising ideas into systems that can operate