As a Senior Software Engineer in Azure Specialized, you will play a crucial role in designing and delivering AI infrastructure for Azure's training and inference workloads. The team focuses on creating innovative customer features and enhancing the Azure platform through collaboration with industry partners. You will work on hardware/software interactions and systems engineering, addressing a variety of technical challenges. This position offers the opportunity to significantly impact customer experiences and contribute to the growth of Azure's capabilities.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.

• Produce extensible and maintainable code while optimizing, debugging, and refactoring to improve performance.
• Maintain communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem to ensure alignment with expectations.
• Drive identification of dependencies and develop design documents for products or platforms.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) to monitor system performance and address issues.
• Help ensure the Azure platform is consistent in performance and can scale on-demand.

• Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.