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Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

Microsoft

Software Engineering
USD 117,200-229,200 / year
Posted on May 13, 2025

Senior Software Engineer

Redmond, Washington, United States

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Date posted
May 09, 2025
Job number
1823125
Work site
Up to 50% work from home
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the development of a growing commercial platform. As part of our team, you will be responsible for delivering world-class experiences to our customers and partners.

This position offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with engineers, operating in a startup-like environment to tackle our next set of significant challenges. You will be joining the project at its inception, allowing your ideas to shape its future direction. You will be empowered to envision, design, code, validate, and deploy key features with substantial customer impact. There are numerous opportunities to make a significant impact and grow rapidly within our expanding organization.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years’ experience in design and implementation of large-scale cloud services.

Other Requirements:

  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
    • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with distributed systems, micro-service architecture, scalability patterns, and high-availability architectures.
  • Experience with Pub/Sub systems and streaming ingestion systems.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until May 16, 2025.

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Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to determine user requirements for various scenarios.
  • Drive the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms.
  • Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to enhance performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
  • Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partner with stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive project plans, release plans, and work items for the workgroup.
  • Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor systems/products/services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status, and initiating actions to restore systems/products/services for both simple and complex problems when appropriate.
  • Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
  • Overcome roadblocks to deliver work to users quickly and iteratively.
  • Design, develop, and operationalize the deployment of complex, enterprise-grade cloud services that leverage multiple services and platforms, ensuring high availability, scalability, robustness, and observability.
  • Be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of these services, ensuring their scalability, reliability, and security.
  • Drive improvements for systems and engineering processes with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets.
  • Implement practices that ensure accurate, safe, and efficient releases for our services.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.