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:

Microsoft’s Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) team builds and operates Microsoft datacenters, powering Microsoft’s cloud business. The CO+I Engineering team (CO+IE) delivers services, applications, and automation supporting datacenter planning, construction, and operation. Sovereign Cloud Engineering (SCE) develops apps and services to enable sovereign cloud datacenter operations that are scalable, effective, compliant, cost-efficient, and intelligent, providing reliable computation capacity for Microsoft clouds and services such as Azure, Microsoft 365, and Dynamics 365.

Job Responsibility:

Collaborates with stakeholders to determine user requirements for scenarios
Identifies dependencies and develops design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms
Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)
Leverages product knowledge and partners with stakeholders to guide project plans, release plans, and work items
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and supports other engineers by following best practices, monitoring systems, alerting stakeholders, and initiating actions to restore service when needed
Proactively seeks new knowledge, adapts to emerging trends and technical solutions, and improves availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while maintaining 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
6+ years of working experience in large scale system architecting, design, development, testing, and release
3+ years of working experience in cloud-based services (Azure or AWS)
3+ years of working experience in modern web framework such as Angular, React, or Vue
Hands-on experience with modern software system design, architectural styles, and usage trade-offs
Experience with data science or machine learning
Experience of leading big initiatives spanning multiple teams and organizations

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
February 04, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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