Senior Software Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond)

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
United States , Redmond

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer in the Cloud+Artificial intelligence Microsoft Specialized Cloud (MSC) Team. This team will be responsible for deploying and operating services within an Air-Gapped environment. In this role, as a Senior Software Engineer you will have the opportunity to work with engineers who enable a broad set of Azure Data services to be consumed by internal and external customers in highly secured and regulated industries. The systems and software you build will be required to meet the security policy and assurance requirements of both public and private sector customers.

Job Responsibility:

Applies debugging tools and examines logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions through writing and developing code proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur for products
Conducts retrospective debugging of solutions to identify root causes of problems
Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis
Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site service and escalates as necessary
Reviews and writes issues postmortem and shares insights with the team
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
Alerts stakeholders as to status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple problems and complex problems when appropriate
Responds within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe
Drives efforts to reduce incident volume, looking globally at incidences and providing broad resolutions
Escalate issues to appropriate owners
Drives efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms
Drives sustaining feedback loops from telemetry resulting in subsequent designs
Creates outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards
Drives efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring)
Drives the refinement of products through data analytics and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration
Builds, enhances, reuses, contributes to, and identifies new software developer tools to support other programs and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for products
Uses open source when possible
Begins to develop skills in other tools outside areas of expertise
Identifies internal tools and creates tools that will be useful for creating the product, determining if methods are still applicable for the current solution
Shares best practices and teaches others about new tools and strategies
Defines and develops standardized, repeatable, scalable solutions to guarantee quality
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
Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role including an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required pre-offer and post-hire for this role
This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions

Nice to have:

Experience working on large-scale distributed services with on-call responsibilities
Ability to build and influence broadly towards common goals and priorities
Ownership for end-to-end project lifecycle with solid project management and communication skills
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

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
May 06, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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