Senior Software Engineer

With the exponential growth of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, Azure’s infrastructure is scaling rapidly—and so is the network that supports it. The Wide Area Network (WAN) Edge team in Azure Networking is leading this transformation. As data and compute demands increase, traditional human-driven network operations are no longer sufficient to meet the scale and complexity of modern AI infrastructure.

To address these challenges, the team is investing in agentic artificial intelligence workflows to modernize network operations. By embedding intelligence into the fabric of Azure’s global network, we aim to automate, optimize, and scale operations with minimal human intervention—ensuring reliability, agility, and performance at cloud scale.

As a Senior Software Engineer in Azure Networking’s WAN Edge team, you will design and build intelligent systems that automate large-scale network operations using agentic AI workflows. You will work on advanced infrastructure challenges that support the rapid growth of AI workloads across Azure’s global network. This opportunity offers hands-on experience with high-performance networking, cloud-scale engineering, and collaboration across Azure and AI Platform teams to shape the future of intelligent infrastructure.

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Responsibilities

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
• Develop agentic AI workflows to automate NOC operations for Azure Networking
• Collaborate across teams to resolve blockers and deliver features
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with AI and agentic workflows (developing agents)
• Familiarity with network operations automation
  

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 Qualifications

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

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