Senior Software Engineer - CoreAI

<b>Overview</b><br><div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">We’re entering a new era defined by the power of AI to transform how organizations operate and innovate. At Microsoft, we’re building the next generation of AI-powered platforms and production-grade solutions that help customers solve complex challenges and create meaningful business impact. <strong>Durable Task Scheduler (DTS)</strong> is a fully managed Azure service that lets developers write reliable, stateful, distributed workflows and durable AI agents in code that reads like ordinary async programming, backed by checkpointing with automatic replay, transparent retries, fan-out/fan-in parallelism, durable timers, durable entities, and human-in-the-loop steps. </span></p></div><div><p> </p></div><div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">As a <strong>Senior Software Engineer - CoreAI </strong>on the <strong>Durable Task Scheduler team</strong>, you’ll work at the intersection of durable execution and real-world customer outcomes. Embedded directly with customers, you’ll partner closely with stakeholders to understand their most critical workflow, orchestration, and AI agent challenges, and rapidly design, build, and deploy DTS-powered solutions that move from concept to production. </span></p></div><div><p> </p></div><div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Working in small, cross-functional teams alongside engineers, product managers, and domain experts, you’ll own the end-to-end delivery of production-grade applications, durable workflows, and AI agent systems built on DTS and the Durable Task SDKs (.NET, Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, and Go). You’ll apply modern engineering practices and AI-enabled engineering practices across the development lifecycle to help customers accelerate decision making, improve operations, and unlock new opportunities, and you’ll bring what you learn in the field back to the product team to shape the service, SDKs, and developer experience. </span></p></div><div><p> </p></div><div><p><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. </span></p></div><br><br><b>Responsibilities</b><br><div><ul><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Partner directly with customers and stakeholders to understand business challenges, define success criteria, and translate needs into durable workflow and orchestration solutions built on Durable Task Scheduler. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Design, build, test, deploy, and operate secure, reliable, and scalable production-grade software systems and services using DTS, Azure Durable Functions, and the Durable Task SDKs, applying AI and data capabilities where appropriate. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Rapidly move from concept to prototype to production, iterating alongside customers to deliver measurable business outcomes. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Build durable, stateful, and observable AI agents and agentic workflows, including with the Microsoft Agent Framework, that connect customer systems, data, and AI capabilities into reliable end-to-end solutions. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Help customers adopt durable execution patterns (fan-out/fan-in, durable timers, durable entities, human-in-the-loop, retries, and compensation) and migrate existing workflow or job-scheduling workloads onto DTS. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Integrate customer solutions with Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps, and Kubernetes/KEDA for hosting, scaling, and deployment. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Apply engineering best practices including code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability (OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and the DTS dashboard), documentation, and security-first development. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Drive end-to-end ownership of customer solutions, monitoring performance, reliability, quality, and maintainability, and continuously improving deployed systems after release. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Collaborate across engineering, product management, design, and customer teams to solve complex distributed-systems problems such as concurrency, idempotency, state management, and failure recovery. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Contribute reusable components, samples, reference implementations, and best practices that can be leveraged across customer engagements and the open-source community. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Share insights and learnings from customer deployments to help improve the DTS service, SDKs, developer experience, and broader Microsoft platforms and engineering practices. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Foster a culture of learning, inclusion, innovation, and continuous improvement while contributing to the growth of the broader FDE community. </span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Embody our culture and values. </span></li></ul></div><br><br><b>Qualifications</b><br><div><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><strong>Required/Minimum Qualifications:</strong></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">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 </span><ul><li><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 are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: </span></div><ul><li style="list-style-type: none; 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;">Bachelor’s Degree (or currently pursuing) in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Experience through coursework, projects, internships, or employment building software, data, cloud, or AI-enabled solutions.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Interest in working directly with customers and supporting solutions from early concept through deployment and ongoing improvement.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Familiarity with AI or machine learning concepts, cloud platforms, data pipelines, application development, or deploying technical solutions.</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Familiarity with durable execution, workflow orchestration, or job-scheduling systems (for example, Azure Durable Functions, the Durable Task Framework, Temporal, or AWS Step Functions).</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Exposure to building on Azure Functions, Azure Container Apps, or Kubernetes, or to AI agent frameworks (for example, the Microsoft Agent Framework, Pydantic, or Langchain).</span></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: black;">Demonstrated ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders, learn in ambiguous environments, and communicate clearly.</span></li></ul></div><div> </div><div> </div> <br><br><p>Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 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>