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Lead the UI engineering discipline for a new game franchise, building and maintaining production-quality UI systems, workflows, and tools in C++ with Unreal Engine 5. Manage, mentor, and develop UI engineers while providing technical guidance across gameplay disciplines. Collaborate with design and cross-functional teams to deliver responsive player experiences, including HUDs, menus, fonts, and localization workflows.

Job posting for Microsoft Software Engineer (IC3/IC4 levels). Lists base pay ranges for U.S. and SF/NY metro areas, application timing, and equal opportunity statement. No specific responsibilities or technical requirements provided.

Designs, develops, and optimizes high-performance networking infrastructure for large-scale distributed AI training and inference in Azure. Responsibilities include building low-latency communication frameworks, benchmarking scalability, debugging complex networking issues, improving code performance and reliability, creating technical designs, participating in on-call operations, and guiding engineers. The role emphasizes observability, availability, scalability, and performance across diverse network architectures and accelerator technologies.

Build and maintain developer workflows, CI/CD and deployment automation, containerized development environments, SDK packaging and release pipelines, AI performance dashboards, and productivity tools. Design scalable software and developer tools for novel hardware platforms, collaborate with hardware and ML teams, manage C++ codebases, establish engineering standards, and optimize software delivery and production readiness.

Design, build, and operate distributed infrastructure powering customer workloads across multiple regions and clouds. Responsibilities include managing container pools, scaling, routing, RBAC, billing, observability, secure cluster networking, and production reliability. The role leads cross-functional initiatives, improves engineering standards and cloud cost efficiency, participates in on-call rotations, and mentors engineers while enabling real-time AI and data applications.

A 12-week software engineering internship involving feature development, software testing, and continuous production deployment. Interns own projects end-to-end, collaborate across engineering and business teams, and receive mentorship while gaining experience with product development and reliable, real-time software systems.

Lead and grow an engineering team building Sui wallet and DeFi experiences across web, browser extension, iOS, Android, backend services, and SDKs. Set technical direction for key management, signing, transactions, dApp connectivity, and asset management. Improve architecture, testing, observability, release safety, incident response, and security while partnering with product, design, protocol, and ecosystem teams to deliver reliable, user-friendly onchain products.

Build and operate scalable backend systems for Athena, including customer onboarding, entitlement logic, data ingestion, validation, deduplication, and agentic workflows. Develop in Go on GCP, use Terraform and GCP-native tooling, maintain observability and operational reliability, participate in on-call and incident response, and lead subsystem development across multiple engineers.

Develop and maintain a production AI-enabled software platform in a federal/DoD environment. Investigate defects, troubleshoot application and system issues, perform root-cause analysis, implement and deploy fixes, support incidents and releases, and maintain technical documentation. Conduct quarterly AI model tuning by evaluating behavior, adjusting prompts and configurations, validating changes, monitoring regressions, and ensuring security, governance, traceability, and change-control compliance.

Leads the Create Core platform engineering team, overseeing roadmap delivery, architecture, developer experience, accessibility, platform adoption, and technical quality. Manages 4–8 engineers, partners with Product and application teams, guides system design and code reviews, and develops a high-performing team through hiring, coaching, and performance management. The role requires experience with cloud-first web platforms, AWS architecture, modern JavaScript technologies, Agile development, and cross-functional technical leadership.

Own end-to-end deployments of Prividium for institutional financial customers, including integration code, permissioning, node topology, upgrades, and operational runbooks. Build reference applications for collateral, tokenized deposits, and settlement. Operate production infrastructure through an on-call rotation, troubleshoot incidents, and convert deployment learnings into platform improvements. Collaborate with product, sales, core engineering, and customer teams while working across regulated banking systems or crypto infrastructure.

Serve as the senior database authority for all Oracle E-Business Suite environments supporting a federal financial system. Responsibilities include database installation, administration, performance tuning, backups, recovery, security hardening, patching, middleware management, disaster recovery, interface support, audit and ATO documentation, access controls, vulnerability remediation, monitoring, and escalation support. The role also contributes to configuration, patch, asset, contingency, and instance management plans.

Owns the Oracle database tier across federal financial system environments, including installation, configuration, security hardening, performance tuning, capacity planning, backups, disaster recovery, middleware administration, monitoring, batch processing, and production issue escalation. The role manages database instances across development through production, supports compliance and change control processes, prepares technical reports, and maintains recoverability and service-level performance for the Department of Labor’s Oracle E-Business Suite platform.

Build, test, deploy, and maintain scoped software features and fixes for mission-critical, cloud-native defense systems. Collaborate with engineering, product, design, and users; debug issues; document implementations; contribute to open-source projects and tooling; and participate in production support and on-call practices. The role offers guidance while developing skills in architecture, Kubernetes, software delivery, interoperability, security, and reliability.