Senior Software Engineer

Job description

As organizations continue to embrace cloud computing and migrate mission-critical workloads to Microsoft Azure, the underlying cloud infrastructure and platform must evolve to meet increasing demands for reliability, performance, and scalability.

These challenges require thoughtful engineering and resilient architecture to support global operations at scale.

If you are interested in exploring these challenges and passionate about shaping next-generation cloud technologies, this team offers a unique opportunity.

Azure Core serves as the foundation of Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem, powering the infrastructure that supports cloud computing worldwide.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure Core engineering team, you will collaborate with experienced colleagues to develop innovative technologies, engage directly with customers, and contribute to the advancement of the cloud industry.

This role also offers flexible work arrangements, including partial remote work.

The team fosters a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning.

You will be encouraged to bring your ideas forward, work across disciplines, and grow your career in a supportive and dynamic environment.

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.

**Responsibilities**

+ Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand challenges and identify opportunities from strategic customers’ perspectives, ensuring alignment with their business goals.
+ Define and plan technology requirements and solutions to address complex end-to-end business and engineering challenges through the lens of Customer Reliability Engineering (CRI).
+ Drive architecture planning, reviews, and development by helping customers define their solution architecture on the Microsoft Azure platform.

Lead resolution of issues and gaps across Azure teams and proactively identify feature gaps to ensure customer success.
+ Partner with relevant stakeholders to determine user requirements across multiple scenarios, ensuring clarity and alignment throughout the development lifecycle.
+ Leverage subject-matter expertise across product features to coordinate project plans, release schedules, and work items across multiple teams, resolving customer-facing issues effectively.
+ Take ownership as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentor engineers across support, product, and solution teams, and manage on-call escalations to monitor and mitigate system degradation, downtime, or service interruptions.
+ Continuously seek new knowledge and adapt to emerging trends, technical solutions, and patterns that enhance availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance.

Share insights with peers while promoting consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

**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#, OR Java, JavaScript, or Python
+ OR equivalent experience.
+ 1+ year(s) experience with cloud platform technologies, demonstrating expertise in one or more areas such as compute, networking, or storage on Microsoft Azure and/or other competitive cloud platforms.

**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:**

+ 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.
+ 1+ year(s) experience in technical leadership and architecture design for large-scale software systems, including:
+ Demonstrated ability to define and guide complex architectural solutions.
+ Prior experience in coaching or leading technical teams.
+ 1+ year(s) experience in navigating ambiguity and driving results with a customer-centric mindset, including:
+ Proven ability to identify problem spaces and adapt quickly in evolving business environments.
+ Commitment to continuous learning, curiosity, and skill development.
+ Ability to collaborate with empathy and focus on delivering impactful outcomes.

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 and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.

Consistent with applicable law, 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.

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