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Senior Software Engineer

Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · Data Engineering · DevOps

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In short

Microsoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and scale intelligence platforms powering Microsoft 365 and Copilot economics. This role involves developing trusted systems that integrate product usage, infrastructure, and financial data, and applying AI to optimize operations and drive data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver scalable platforms connecting operational telemetry, product usage, infrastructure, and financial data.
  • Drive architecture, implementation, and operational excellence for large-scale cloud services powering Microsoft 365 and Copilot economics insights.
  • Develop solutions to improve visibility into cost drivers, resource efficiency, service dependencies, and business outcomes.
  • Apply AI, agents, and intelligent automation to streamline workflows, identify optimization opportunities, and improve engineering productivity.
  • Partner across engineering, product, finance, and business teams to translate complex requirements into scalable platform capabilities.
  • Lead technical initiatives, influence architecture decisions, and drive adoption of shared platform capabilities.
  • Improve platform reliability, observability, data quality, and operational efficiency.
  • Contribute to technical excellence and establish reusable patterns and capabilities.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
  • Pass Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

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, OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience building scalable software systems that process large volumes of data.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive complex technical initiatives from design through production deployment and measurable results.
  • Solid software engineering fundamentals, including distributed systems design, cloud architecture, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
  • Experience collaborating across teams and disciplines to solve ambiguous technical problems and deliver customer and business value.
  • Experience leveraging data, analytics, observability, or AI technologies to improve service performance, operational efficiency, or business decision making.
  • Passion for AI-native engineering and automation, including applying intelligent systems to improve engineering productivity and operational effectiveness.
  • Proven ability to contribute to a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.
  • Experience with FinOps, Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), business intelligence, capacity planning, or cloud economics.
  • Experience building and operating large-scale cloud platforms, data platforms supporting mission-critical services.
  • Experience with large language models (LLMs), agent platforms.
  • Experience developing data-driven insights platforms.
  • Experience establishing engineering standards, operational practices, automation frameworks, or governance models for cloud-scale services.

Benefits

  • 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.
  • Assistance with religious accommodations and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process.
#Software Engineering#Cloud#Data#AI#Intelligence Platforms#Microsoft 365#Copilot#Economics#Scalability#Distributed Systems#Observability#FinOps#LLMs
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Company

Microsoft

Job Posted

3 weeks ago

Employment Type

Full Time

WorkMode

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Locations

United States

Qualification

Bachelor, Master

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