Senior Software Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Multiple Locations)

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
United States , Multiple Locations

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. Within Azure Data, the databases team builds and maintains Microsoft's operational Database systems. We store and manage data in a structured way to enable multitude of applications across various industries. We are on a journey to enable developer friendly, mission-critical, AI enabled operational Databases across relational, non-relational and OSS offerings and are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for our team. We research and develop algorithms, tools and libraries for AI-based information retrieval in Azure Data products. For example, we build market-leading vector search in multiple data products, for which innovate both on research and engineering fronts. See, for example, our work on the DiskANN library (aka.ms/AboutDiskANN). We are looking for engineers who would develop new ideas, scale the system in various products, add cutting edge features, and engage with the open-source community.

Job Responsibility:

Leads by example within the team to produce extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant code that adheres to design specifications
Continuously improves code performance, testability, maintainability, effectiveness, and cost, while learning about and accounting for relevant trade-offs
Applies metrics to drive code quality and stability
Applies appropriate coding patterns and best practices
Identifies and escalates blockers or unknowns during the development process, communicates how they will impact timelines, and identifies strategies and/or opportunities to address them
Identifies dependencies and incorporates them into the development of design documents for a product, application, service or platform
Actively identifies other teams and technologies to leverage, how they interact, and where their own system or team can support others
Understands upstream and downstream interactions between systems and ensures security, compliance, performance, and reliability can be achieved across the entire stack
Collaborates with other teams to reach common goals where dependencies and validation concerns overlap
Works across teams to resolve conflicts around dependency ownership and required work
Leveraging internal experimentation infrastructures, drives experiments that determine the impact of changes, using feature flags/flighting in their code
Collaborates with internal partners to incorporate success and guard rail metrics for experimentation
Collaborates with and guides appropriate internal and external stakeholders to determine and confirm customer/user requirements for a project/sub-section of a product/solution
Incorporates customer insights into future designs or solution fixes
Ensures unwritten requirements, such as appropriate continuous feedback loops that measure actionable, quantitative and qualitative indicators of value are incorporated
Understands, provides feedback on, and advocates for security and privacy needs of the customer who will be using the project/sub-section of a product/solution
Leads discussions for and owns the architecture of a products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and develop complex design specifications
Tests and explores various design options for a complex product/solution scenario, outlining strengths and weaknesses of each option
Independently collaborates with architects to build and modify complex products/solutions, providing feedback as needed
Owns or collaborates with other engineers on the architecture of solutions, with minimal technical oversight
Develops design documents that support user stories and other product requirements
Maintains awareness of the current technology landscape, and determines how to integrate these technologies within existing systems
Shares learnings and identified solutions from investigations with the team and owns for some design decisions
Ensures system architecture and individual designs meet performance, scalability, resiliency, cost of goods sold (COGS), disaster recovery, and other requirements and expectations
Upholds Microsoft standards of security, privacy, and other compliance requirements and expectations
Understands and coaches less experienced engineers on the importance of building solutions that expand upon the work of others
Drives the refinement of products through data analytics, and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration
Reviews designs/architectures within and across teams to provide recommendations for improvement
Embody our culture and values

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 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

Nice to have:

2+ years' experience in Rust or C++
2+ years' experience in performance engineering, open source software development, database internals or algorithmic engineering

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 06, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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