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The Foundry Billing team plays a critical role in enabling these experiences by providing reliable, accurate, and scalable billing capabilities across Azure AI Foundry.\nWe are looking for a Software Engineer who is passionate about building large-scale distributed systems and solving complex engineering problems. You will work on the end-to-end billing platform that enables new AI models, services, and commercial offerings to launch with accurate and trustworthy usage and billing.\nFoundry Billing is responsible for commercial implementation readiness, usage correctness and attribution, billing delivery and charge assurance, reconciliation, and customer usage observability.\nResponsibilities\nAs a Software Engineer on the Foundry Billing team, you will:\nDesign, implement, test, and operate scalable billing services that process high-volume AI usage and reliably deliver billing data to downstream Azure Commerce and Marketplace systems.\nEnable new AI models and features for billing, working with partner teams to define billing units, meters, usage semantics, attribution, and end-to-end launch readiness.\nImprove billing correctness and reliability, including usage validation, deduplication, reconciliation, replay and recovery mechanisms, and detection of missing or incorrect billing data. 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