Senior Software Engineer
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · DevOps
In short
Microsoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in distributed systems and AI to contribute to the next generation of their engineering platform. The role involves designing and building production systems, applying AI to engineering workflows, and improving developer productivity and platform reliability. This is a hands-on role shaping technical direction and raising the engineering bar.
Responsibilities
- Help shape technical direction and contribute to the platform roadmap.
- Apply AI to real engineering problems, building AI-assisted and agent-based features.
- Treat the platform as a product, working with partner teams to understand and solve their problems.
- Make safe delivery easier by building automated validation, progressive rollout, observability, and recovery tools.
- Own platform features end to end, measuring success by developer experience, reliability, performance, and cost.
- Collaborate across teams, contributing to technical tradeoffs and shared approaches.
- Raise the engineering bar through high-quality code, design reviews, and mentoring.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience.
- Coding experience in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- Pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.
Desired Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems or shared platform services in production.
- Experience building platform components or developer tools used by multiple teams that improved engineering productivity, service reliability, or operational efficiency.
- Hands-on experience integrating large language models or agents into engineering workflows.
- Experience building interfaces and workflows that work for both human developers and AI agents.
- Depth in at least one platform area, such as service frameworks, data infrastructure, observability, CI/CD, experimentation, configuration management, or cloud infrastructure.
- Experience using telemetry, profiling, and production investigations to find bottlenecks and deliver measurable performance or cost improvements.
- Experience modernizing existing systems through incremental changes and migrations without disrupting customers or partners.
- A record of balancing exploration with practical delivery, turning promising prototypes into supported, production-ready platform features.
- Solid systems engineering fundamentals, including API design, concurrency, data management, failure handling, and performance analysis.
- An AI-forward engineering mindset.
- A record of delivering complex technical projects from design through production.
- Ability to turn ambiguous requirements and developer needs into practical, maintainable technical solutions.
- Solid communication and collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year.
- Different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Skills
PythonJavaC++C#JavaScriptCDistributed SystemsLarge Language ModelsAPI Design
#AI#Platform Engineering#Distributed Systems#Software Development
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Company
MicrosoftJob Posted
4 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Salary
US$119,800–234,700 · Negotiable
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
United States
Qualification
Bachelor
Applicants
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