Senior Software Engineer, Foundry IQ - CoreAI

Senior Software Engineer, Foundry IQ - CoreAI

United States, Washington, Redmond

Job description

Company and benefits

Job number 200065630

Date posted Nov 06, 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

Business Group Overview

Build the secure cloud foundation behind Azure AI Search and enterprise AI applications. You will join the Data Governance team within Microsoft's Core AI organization in Redmond, WA. You will develop networking, identity, encryption, privacy, observability, and billing capabilities that help customers adopt AI Search with confidence.

Job Purpose Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build infrastructure that protects customer data and keeps search services reliable. You will own features through design, coding, testing, deployment, and production support while developing skills in resilient system design, automation, and operational diagnostics. This hybrid role requires three days per week onsite in Redmond.

Company and Culture

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 bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers and partner teams to define customer requirements and acceptance criteria for infrastructure features.
• Identify dependencies and design distributed services, documenting security, privacy, reliability, scalability, and performance tradeoffs.
• Implement, test, debug, and refactor production code and APIs, using automated tests and staged rollouts to deliver safe changes.
• Drive feature and release plans, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and mentor peers through design and code reviews.
• Participate in a shared on-call rotation with our compute infrastructure team; diagnose provisioning and service incidents, restore service, and improve recovery procedures.
• Use telemetry, monitoring, and automation to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance, and reduce recurring operational work.

Qualifications

• Required Qualifications

• 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 equivalent experience.

• Other Requirements

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

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

• Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years of technical engineering experience, OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years of technical engineering experience, OR equivalent experience, with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

• Experience developing C#/.NET services or automating Azure resource provisioning and deployment.

• Experience implementing cloud netw