[Hiring] Azure AI Software Developer @Quest Software

Role Description

Quest Software is seeking an AI Software Engineer to help define and advance AI-first software development practices for a cloud-native SaaS product on the Microsoft Azure platform. This role is intended for an experienced developer who combines strong C#/.NET, Python, Azure, AWS, cloud architecture, and backend engineering skills with proven hands-on experience using AI coding agents, AI-assisted development platforms, and agentic development workflows in production software engineering.

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute directly to the product codebase while also helping the team adopt AI coding approaches that improve:

• Development speed
• Code quality
• Test coverage
• Refactoring
• Troubleshooting

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the adoption of AI-first software development practices across the project team.
• Use AI coding agents and AI-assisted development platforms extensively in day-to-day product engineering, including:
  • Solution design
  • Implementation
  • Automated testing
  • Debugging
  • Troubleshooting
  • Refactoring
  • Code reviews
  • Technical documentation
• Design, build, test, and maintain scalable, serverless, cloud-native SaaS capabilities using:
  • C#/.NET and Microsoft Azure technologies, including Azure Functions, Microsoft Graph API, Azure Data Explorer, Cosmos DB, AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service), ACA (Azure Container Apps), and Event Hubs.
  • Python/TypeScript and AWS technologies, including EKS, DynamoDB, S3, and Lambda Functions.
• Contribute to architecture, technical decision-making, code reviews, CI/CD, release readiness, and ownership of critical product components in an Agile SCRUM environment.

Qualifications

• Completion of a computer science undergraduate degree or equivalent practical experience.
• Five or more years of professional software development experience, including strong hands-on C#, .NET, and Python experience.
• Demonstrated professional experience using AI coding agents, AI-assisted development tools, or agentic development workflows as a substantial part of real software development work.
• Advanced practical experience with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Windsurf, or comparable AI-powered development platforms.
• Design reusable prompts, agent instructions, development workflows, validation steps, and guardrails that enable consistent and responsible AI-assisted software development.
• Demonstrated ability to apply AI coding tools to improve software design, implementation productivity, code quality, automated testing, debugging, troubleshooting, refactoring, code review, or technical documentation.
• Experience building Azure cloud applications using event-driven, service-based, or microservice architectures.
• Experience building scalable backend services and distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design, design patterns, SOLID principles, secure development, automated testing, continuous integration, debugging, and maintainable software architecture.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, technical leadership, and the ability to collaborate effectively in an Agile team environment.

Nice to have

• Experience developing and maintaining YAML CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Github Actions, Terraform, or similar systems.
• Experience with Azure OpenAI Service, large language model APIs, evaluation frameworks, observability, or AI application security.
• Experience with Angular or React and TypeScript.
• Experience with PySpark (Python + Spark).

Benefits

• Work on enterprise-scale commercial software used by customers worldwide.
• Collaborate with dedicated professionals who are passionate about technology and practical innovation.
• Help shape how AI-assisted development practices are applied to a mature on-premises product and engineering team.
• Grow your career through learning opportunities, mentorship, leadership programs, and a collaborative global team environment.
• Benefit from competitive pay, annual bonuses, comprehensive benefits, flexible work options, generous PTO, and wellness programs.