Senior Software Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond)

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
United States , Redmond

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

119800.00 - 234700.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

In this fast-paced environment, innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence are core to our culture. The Personnel team plays a critical role in supporting both internal partner teams and our DoD (Department of Defense) and DIB (Defense Industrial Base) customers, ensuring that our solutions meet the highest standards of security, compliance, and reliability. Our team’s mission is to grow the business by building software that fulfills our enterprise promises of high availability, resiliency, data management, security, and compliance across the entire suite of Azure services, with a special focus on government clouds.

Job Responsibility:

Architect, deploy, and manage secure Microsoft services in cloud and hybrid environments with a focus on reliability, security, and compliance
Build scalable backend systems (distributed systems, microservices) with seamless data integration and well-defined contracts and SLAs
Design for high availability, scalability, robustness, and observability
drive SLOs, error budgets, and telemetry-first engineering
Build and deploy services to Azure using modern CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and automated testing practices
Collaborate with security, compliance, and site reliability teams to meet regulatory and customer requirements for government and regulated industries
Prototype, experiment, and evaluate alternative architectures and technologies
make data-driven tradeoffs
Uphold and evolve engineering best practices (code quality, design reviews, testing, operational excellence)
Mentor and coach engineers
provide technical leadership across team boundaries
Participate in service ownership (e.g., on-call rotations) to ensure high service quality and rapid incident response
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 have an active TS Top-Secret Security Clearance
US citizenship is required
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship
Candidates must have authorization to work in the United States that does not now or in the future require employer sponsorship

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
6+ years of software engineering experience building and releasing web services
Show experience in driving large strategic and complex or ambiguous projects that span organizations
Passion for delivering customer impact and value
Experience building and deploying infrastructure using Microsoft Azure technology or AWS
Experience supporting government or regulated industries (security, compliance, and audit readiness).

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 06, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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