Senior Azure AI Software Developer

Quest Software Canada Inc; Nova Scotia; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Annual bonuses

Comprehensive benefits

Flexible work options

Generous PTO

Wellness programs

Job summary

Quest Software is seeking a Senior Azure AI Software Engineer to help define AI-first software development practices for a cloud-native SaaS product on the Microsoft Azure platform. This role requires strong C#/.NET, Azure, cloud architecture, and backend engineering skills, plus hands-on experience with AI coding agents and agentic development workflows in production software engineering.

You will contribute directly to the product codebase and help the team adopt AI coding approaches across

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# and .NET 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 AI-powered development platforms such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Windsurf, or comparable tools.
• Demonstrated ability to apply AI coding tools to improve software design, implementation productivity, code quality, automated testing, debugging, 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.

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 design, implementation, testing, debugging, refactoring, code reviews, and documentation.
• Design reusable prompts, agent instructions, development workflows, validation steps, and guardrails for consistent AI-assisted development.
• Design, build, test, and maintain scalable, serverless, cloud-native SaaS capabilities using C#/.NET and Azure technologies (Functions, Graph API, Data Explorer, Cosmos DB, AKS, ACA, Event Hubs).
• Contribute to architecture, technical decisions, CI/CD, release readiness, and ownership in an Agile SCRUM environment.

Skills

C# / .NET

AI coding agents

AI-assisted development

Cloud architecture

GitHub Copilot

Windsurf

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

GitHub Copilot

Claude Code

Windsurf

Job description

Overview

Quest Software is seeking a Senior Azure 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, Azure, 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 and troubleshooting. We are looking for someone who has used AI coding agents in real software development work and can translate that experience into repeatable practices.

This is a remote position - the candidate must be located in Canada.

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, and technical documentation.
• Design reusable prompts, agent instructions, development workflows, validation steps, and guardrails that enable consistent and responsible AI-assisted software development.
• 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) and ACA (Azure Container Apps) and Event Hubs.
• 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# and .NET 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.
• 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, 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.

Company Overview

Quest Software enables organizations of all sizes to better secure, manage, monitor, protect, and analyze information and infrastructure to help fuel innovation and drive their businesses forward.

Quest builds solutions across data governance, cybersecurity, and platform modernization. More than 45,000 companies, including 90% of the Fortune 500, trust Quest to solve critical IT challenges, from securing identities and modernizing platforms to preparing enterprise data for AI.

Why Quest

• 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.

Quest is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. Quest is committed to equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications.