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:

It is a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and we are empowering it. Microsoft Azure is at the heart of the Microsoft Cloud, providing the backend infrastructure for hyper-scale distributed and dynamic computing. Our team within Azure delivers the software platform that enables internal Microsoft services—including Office 365, Bing.com, Xbox Live, Skype, and OneDrive—as well as many external customers to run large-scale, mission-critical cloud applications for their businesses. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us evolve, expand, and define our software platform and infrastructure. Areas of focus include ring zero and negative one core infrastructure services, achieving five nines (99.999%) reliability, fault tolerance, distributed service monitoring, operational efficiency across the datacenter hardware lifecycle, performance metrics collection and analysis, alerting, visualization, device operations, and coordination of node diagnostics and repairs.

Job Responsibility:

Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features
Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight
Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable
Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems
Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale

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
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Nice to have:

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:
February 04, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Remote work

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