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About the Role
COSMIC is building agentic infrastructure to help engineers define goals and policies, while autonomous systems execute routine work across Microsoft’s largest Kubernetes fleets. This role will build autonomous operational capabilities for COSMIC, owning features and services that enable AI agents to coordinate and safely execute operational workflows at fleet scale.
Responsibilities
- Own the design, implementation, rollout, and operation of significant COSMIC App Platform features and services.
- Build distributed platform and orchestration components for AI agent coordination and execution of workflows.
- Design safety boundaries including sandbox isolation, scoped identity and access, policy and approval checks, auditable execution, rollback, blast-radius containment, and human oversight.
- Drive production readiness through health-gated releases, observability, alerts, runbooks, on-call support, and incident follow-up.
- Build evaluation, experimentation, feedback, and learning loops with measurable system-quality and operational outcomes.
- Translate customer and operational needs into sound designs, testable software, and clear success criteria.
- Resolve cross-team dependencies and deliver end-to-end scenarios.
- Investigate complex production issues using telemetry and data, identify root causes, and deliver durable fixes.
- Lead feature-level technical reviews, contribute to architecture and roadmap decisions, mentor engineers, and improve reusable engineering patterns and tooling.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python or Rust.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- Must pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Skills
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- Rust
- Distributed systems design
- Cloud services development
- Kubernetes-based infrastructure
- Production AI systems
- Agent systems
- Workflow orchestration
- Control planes
- Intelligent automation
- Safety mechanisms for automated systems
- Policy implementation for automated systems
- Identity implementation for automated systems
- Authorization implementation for automated systems
- Observability implementation for automated systems
- Evaluation implementation for automated systems
- Approval mechanisms for automated systems
- Coding
- Debugging
- Testing
- Systems design
- Telemetry analysis
- Experimentation
- Customer feedback utilization
- Technical communication
- Cross-functional collaboration
Location
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 4+ years technical engineering experience
- 6+ years technical engineering experience
- 8+ years technical engineering experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
Salary/Compensations
- USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (U.S. typical base pay range)
- USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area base pay range)
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
About the Company
- Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
- As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals.
- Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.