Senior Software Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Senior Software Engineer (AI): Building and optimizing infrastructure to protect hirify.global services and products from abuse and denial-of-service, with an accent on designing and implementing low-latency, globally deployed reverse-proxies. Focus on leveraging ePBF and ONNX runtime to detect novel attacks in real-time within Gen-AI based services.

Location: Redmond, United States. Employees must live within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location, and are expected to work from the office at least four days per week.

Salary: USD $100,600 – $215,400 per year

Company

hirify.global is a several thousand software engineers strong organization working on Copilot, Bing, Edge browser, Maps, Ads, News, and other projects, empowering individuals and organizations globally.

What you will do

• Help build infrastructure that protects services and products under hirify.global.
• Work on cutting-edge systems to protect Gen-AI based services from abuse and denial-of-service.
• Build extremely low-latency reverse-proxies that can scale dynamically and are deployed globally.
• Leverage ePBF to build detection and mitigation pipelines for new services and detect novel attacks in real-time using ONNX runtime on top of SLMs.
• Enhance proxy capabilities for WSS, WebRTC.
• Design, write and implement services with performance, efficiency, re-usability, and maintainability as core focus.
• Mentor engineers on the team by providing hands-on assistance, best practices, and promoting an inclusive learning environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience.
• Proficiency in coding with languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• 5+ years of experience writing code (C/C++, C#, Java, Python) for large-scale systems.
• 2+ years of experience working with CDNs, DNS, Load Balancers, or Traffic Management.
• 2+ years of experience working with internet-facing application servers or reverse proxies like Apache, NGINX, YARP, Istio.

Nice to have

• Pen-testing experience in the industry.
• Bot Detection and DDoS Protection experience.
• Published contributions to CVEs.
• Good understanding of UX frameworks and HTTP protocol basics.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive, casual, and high energy team culture grounded in customer needs.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and other engineers on solution design.
• Significant voice in deciding best practices and tooling.
• Opportunity to build services and experiences used by millions worldwide.
• Company values of respect, integrity, and accountability foster an inclusive culture.
• Eligible for comprehensive benefits and other compensation.