Software Engineer 2 - CoreAI

<b>Overview</b><br><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">The <strong>Azure Logic Apps team </strong>is looking for a <strong>Software Engineer 2 - CoreAI</strong> who is passionate about building new products in an AI-driven environment while helping operate highly reliable, globally distributed services. </span></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">We deliver platform capabilities that power realtime, reliable, cloudscale workflows, while integrating deeply with AI models, agent loops, reasoning engines, and Core AI services. Logic Apps under CoreAI brings together workflow automation, enterprise connectors, and intelligent agent behaviors so customers can build solutions that plan, reason, and act on their behalf. </span></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">As part of Core AI, as a Software Engineer 2 - CoreAI you will help evolve Logic Apps to support agentic execution, autonomous task orchestration, AIfirst workflow design, and adaptive business process automation—all powered by modern cloud services. </span></div><div> </div><div> </div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.  </span></div><br><br><b>Responsibilities</b><br><ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Lead System Design &amp; Architecture: Drive architecture discussions, author design documents, and design scalable platform components for AI-native, agentic, and distributed systems, balancing security, compliance, reliability, long-term sustainability, and delivery.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Deliver High-Quality Code: Write extensible, maintainable, and performant code across platform and runtime components. Debug complex production issues, optimize distributed systems, review code, and uphold high engineering standards.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Build AI-Native Platform Capabilities: Design and develop foundational capabilities that enable AI agents to reason, plan, orchestrate, and execute tasks across customer workflows, including integration with AI models, agent frameworks, workflow engines, and cloud services.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Drive Implementation &amp; Deployment: Lead project planning and experimentation, validate the impact of changes, and ensure safe and reliable deployment of platform capabilities across globally distributed environments.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Ensure Reliability &amp; Operational Excellence: Improve the performance, reliability, and scalability of mission-critical cloud services. Maintain live-site health, develop incident response playbooks, lead root cause analyses (RCAs), and implement systemic improvements that strengthen service reliability.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Advance Engineering Tools &amp; Practices: Build developer tools and automation that improve engineering velocity and AI-augmented development workflows. Apply data and telemetry to identify opportunities, guide technical decisions, and continuously improve the platform.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Shape Product &amp; Technical Strategy: Influence the product roadmap and architecture by combining customer feedback, telemetry, business goals, and emerging AI technologies to determine where the platform should evolve.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Foster Cross-Team Alignment: Collaborate across Core AI and partner engineering and product teams to deliver cohesive end-to-end experiences and establish shared technical direction across distributed systems, AI orchestration, and cloud platform capabilities.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Build Core Capabilities: Design reusable platform services and building blocks spanning distributed systems, event-driven architectures, stateful runtimes, workflow automation, enterprise integration, and AI orchestration to accelerate innovation and team velocity.</span></li></ul><br><br><b>Qualifications</b><br><div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><strong>Required/Minimum Qualifications</strong></span></div><ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">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 </span><ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">OR equivalent experience.</span></li></ul></li></ul><div> </div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><strong>Other Requirements</strong></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements required for this role, including:</span></div><ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.</span></li></ul><div> </div><div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><strong>Preferred/Additional Qualifications</strong></span></div><ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">4+ years of experience designing, building, and operating production-grade software and services at scale</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Experience designing, building, and shipping cloud-scale distributed systems, workflow engines, platform services, or event-driven architectures.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Understanding of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Experience with AI/LLM-based systems, agent frameworks, reasoning or orchestration systems, or integrating AI capabilities into production services.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Hands-on experience developing in AI-enhanced environments using tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts and collaborate across engineering and product organizations</span></li></ul></div> <br><br><p>Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 per year. </p><p></p> <p>Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:<br><a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay">https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay</a></p><br><p>This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.</p><br><hr><br><p>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 <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html"><b><u>requesting accommodations.</u></b></a></p>