Software Engineer 2 - CoreAI

Within AI Platform, the Azure AI Search team powers rich knowledge base experiences for apps of all kinds. We integrate the best of Microsoft AI for content understanding, search relevance, and knowledge sources.

Join Azure AI Search Engineering Foundations as a Software Engineer 2 - CoreAI and help shape not just our product, but our team culture. In this role, you’ll have the freedom to innovate on engineering processes and developer tooling—impacting how we build, validate, ship, and operate AI Search at scale and securely.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer 2 - CoreAI who leads by example, is passionate about using and discovering AI tools to transform developer productivity. This position gives you the space to experiment, modernize, and influence the foundations that empower all Azure AI Search engineers. If you thrive on driving change, collaborating across teams, and want to be at the forefront of how AI is used to build AI, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact.

Our team’s work is not just about building or maintaining systems—it’s about becoming subject matter experts across critical engineering domains and setting the standards that empower every AI Search developer to succeed.

We focus on areas like identity, secrets, authentication, certificates, pipelines, scripts, DevOps, build, test and validation frameworks, lab management, and security. Our role is to deeply understand these domains, partner with Azure and Microsoft infrastructure teams, and establish guidelines and processes that remove friction for our engineering community.

What makes our work truly interesting is the customer focus and empathy required: we listen to our developers, anticipate their challenges, and proactively design solutions that help them achieve their goals faster and more securely. Whether it’s defining best practices for secure identity management, streamlining CI/CD pipelines, or creating frameworks for automated validation, our impact is measured by the success of the engineers we support.

If you’re passionate about becoming an expert, influencing engineering culture, and making a tangible difference for our developers, you’ll find our team’s work both challenging and deeply rewarding.

• Play a role in shaping and defining AI Search developers experience so that the developers thrive and have the best in class engineering experience.
• Regularly innovate and share the application of AI to improve developer experience and boost productivity.
• Embody secure mindset and foster inclusive team culture
• Collaborate closely with AI Search teams to build generalizable frameworks and tools.
• Teach and incrementally improve solutions with Azure AI Search Engineering team.

Required/Minimum 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/Additional Qualifications:

• Bachelor'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
• 3+ years of experience delivering solutions of infrastructure as a platform
• 2+ years of experience with increasing the development and delivery velocity of complex codebases
• 2+ years of experience delivering solutions of infrastructure as a platform
• 2+ years of experience with delivering security in the cloud
• Experience successfully contributing to engineering teams to successfully deliver code into large engineering projects

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.