Software Engineering IC4

Job Description Overview Microsoft is leading the AI strategy with an ambitious mission to democratize AI, make it an essential ingredient for delivering breakthrough customer experiences and to ensure the benefits of AI reach every person and organization on the planet, safely and responsibly. We are looking for a senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, Hyderabad, who is passionate about designing and building highly reliable, available platform to support model inferencing at the scale of billions of requests per day. You will also be expected to work on high throughput/low latency scenarios and drive performance optimization capabilities. You will be joining the Azure Open AI Inference team that builds and runs the model-serving platform for large OpenAI generative models. This team is at the forefront of delivering this innovation with massive scale powering every Azure OpenAI customer and scenario in the industry, both 3P and 1P customer like Bing and Office and solve exciting problems on the intersection of AI and Cloud Responsibilities Responsibilities: - Design and build complex high scale services: Lead the architectural design of complex software systems, considering security, scalability, maintainability, and cost-effectiveness - Code Review and Quality Assurance: Conduct code reviews with a focus on delivering a high-quality product and ensuring compliance with standards that safeguard customer security & privacy and modeling the engineering culture we aspire to for other engineers on the team. - Problem Solving: Solve complex technical issues to improve the service & our customer's experience. - Project Leadership: Take ownership of and drive key cross-team development projects, ensuring the results align with business goals and timeline requirements while managing risks. - Production Service Support: Work as part of an on-call rotation to support the services within the team's ownership, mitigating customer impacting incidents, driving clarity, and providing guidance and leadership to other engineers on the team when handling incidents. Qualifications Required and Preferred - B Tech or M Tech in computer science, engineering, mathematics or a related field, or equivalent industry experience. - 7+ years of software development experience. - Work experience of running a real time service with high throughput and low latency requirements is a plus #AIPLATFORM# 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. 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.