Overview

Would you like to work on a fast and agile team at the center of Microsoft Azure and make an impact on core cloud services every day? The role offers the opportunity to contribute to foundational technology that supports customers and engineers across the platform.

The Artificial Intelligence for Operations (AIOps) Business Resilience and Intelligence (BRAIN) team within Azure Core focuses on making Azure the world’s most reliable cloud platform. The team develops automation and intelligence capabilities to improve Azure reliability by solving large‑scale cloud health challenges and creating services that use artificial intelligence, large language models, autonomous agents, and automation to detect, mitigate, and prevent service issues.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

Design, implement and deliver features & quality improvements to improve the Brain experience for all Azure services.
Work with partner teams to design, implement, integrate pipelines to enable end to end workflows.
Contribute to debugging, troubleshooting complete stack of a service, and drive analysis of cloud health problems; write software and build automation to resolve problems permanently.
Review ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for operating services and systems; assess design and code changes to drive improvements.
Participate actively in code reviews, bug/issue triage with the feature teams, and support well informed decisions towards business and engineering goals.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ 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 are 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

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.
1+ years of software development experience demonstrating feature development 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:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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.

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