Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
Multiple Locations, United States
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Overview
Do you want to power the AI revolution with resilient, secure, and self-evolving infrastructure? Do you want to architect the future of distributed computing at infinite scale? If you're ready to tackle the hardest problems in cloud reliability, performance, and multitenancy, this is your launchpad to shape the next generation of intelligent platforms.
Azure Core is a team within Microsoft with a main vision to deliver world-class cloud infrastructure that powers the world's workloads. The Azure Core team organization spans software development, program and product management, and delivers the array of capabilities that serve as the foundation for customers’ cloud experiences. Among other things, the team is working on products that provide durability (prevention of data loss), high availability (making sure that services are up and running in presence of failures), orchestration (ensuring optimal utilization of our hardware), infrastructure efficiency and buildout systems for improving the scaling experience and many other aspects that are crucial to always provide smooth operation of the Azure Cloud.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who would play a pivotal role in advancing distributed computing architectures that underpin the control plane for critical cloud services. Their work would directly support Azure’s AI ambitions by enabling scalable, fault-tolerant platforms capable of hosting next-generation agentic and containerized AI services.
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
- 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.
- 3+ years of experience with distributed systems or microservices architectures.
- 2+ years of experience with cloud development (ex. AWS, Azure, etc.)
- 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.
- 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 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 equivalent experience.
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 August 21, 2025
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Responsibilities
- Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
- Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
- Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
- Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
- Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.