Senior Software Engineer
Software Engineering
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Join the Microsoft Foundry engineering team building core experiences and platform capabilities that enable developers and enterprises to build, customize, deploy, and operate AI applications and agents.The team owns end-to-end engineering across customer-facing experiences, backend services, platform infrastructure, and AI enablement workflows. Our work includes agent-building experiences, model onboarding and catalog experiences, fine-tuning and training workflows, compute scenarios, and the services that allow customers to build and operate AI solutions at scale.
Engineers work across the full software lifecycle: architecture, technical design, implementation, testing, reliability, operational excellence, and long-term platform evolution. We value strong technical fundamentals, customer obsession, engineering excellence, collaboration, growth mindset, adaptability, and inclusive teamwork.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Lead technical design and solutioning for complex initiatives across Microsoft Foundry experiences and platform capabilities.
- Drive architecture, engineering principles, scalability, reliability, security, and long-term platform health.
- Provide technical leadership across full-stack systems, including customer experiences, backend services, platform components, and infrastructure dependencies.
- Influence engineering direction across multiple projects and partner teams.
- Guide design reviews, technical tradeoffs, and implementation strategies.
- Shape responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices and modern engineering standards.
- Mentor senior engineers and act as a trusted technical leader across the organization.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 10+ years of software engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience leading architecture and technical design for large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience with full-stack engineering, platform development, or large production services.
- Practical experience with AI/ML technologies, generative AI, agents, or related solutions.
- Experience driving technical alignment across multiple stakeholders and teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience building AI platforms, developer platforms, or enterprise-scale cloud services.
- Experience with Microsoft Foundry, Azure services, model lifecycle management, agent frameworks, or machine learning systems.
- Experience improving engineering systems, standards, and architectural practices across organizations.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and leading complex cross-team initiatives.
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.