Senior Software Engineer, Foundry Agents - CoreAI

Microsoft
United States, Washington, Redmond / United States, California, Mountain View2026-05-11onsite

About the job

As a Senior Software Engineer within Foundry Agents, you will build and evolve large-scale, cloud-native systems that span the full lifecycle of advanced agentic applications — from secure enterprise deployment and governed tool integration, to fine-tuning and training workflows, to observability, evaluation, and optimization in production. Your work will directly contribute to how developers and enterprises build reliable, autonomous, and high-impact AI agents.

Responsibilities

Build and scale services that support secure agent deployment and execution, governed tool integration, training/fine-tuning, and observability/evaluation

Design and implement distributed systems and cloud services to run agents reliably at enterprise scale

Improve developer and researcher workflows through better tooling, abstractions, and automation across fine-tuning, evaluation, and optimization

Debug and optimize interactions across models, data, and infrastructure

Contribute to technical design and implementation across the software development lifecycle

Maintain high standards for code quality, testing, reliability, and operational excellence

Collaborate closely with partner teams across CoreAI and Azure to deliver production-ready platform capabilities

You will contribute to a strong engineering culture through thoughtful design discussions, code reviews, and collaboration across teams. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your technical scope while helping to build the platforms that enable intelligent agent systems at scale.

Qualifications

Minimum

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 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

Preferred

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ 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 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

OR equivalent experience.

5+ years technical engineering experience designing and delivering highly available, large-scale cloud services and distributed systems.

3+ years of technical engineering experience with machine learning or Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems