FULL_TIME
5-10
Senior Software Engineer
11/23/2025
The Senior Software Engineer will collaborate with stakeholders to determine user requirements and drive the development of design documents. They will also lead the design, development, and operationalization of complex cloud services, ensuring high availability and scalability.
Salary
119800 - 234700 USD
Working Hours
40 hours/week
Company Size
10,001+ employees
Language
English
Visa Sponsorship
No
About The Company
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters.
Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
About the Role
- Collaborate with stakeholders to determine user requirements for various scenarios. - Drive the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms. - Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to enhance performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). - Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partner with stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive project plans, release plans, and work items for the workgroup. - Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor systems/products/services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status, and initiating actions to restore systems/products/services for both simple and complex problems when appropriate. - Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. - Lead by example, engage in discussions on the architecture of products or solutions, and apply engineering principles to establish robust and maintainable architecture and designs. - Overcome roadblocks to deliver work to users quickly and iteratively. - Drive, coach, and mentor others through design reviews, code reviews, and test case reviews. - Design, develop, and operationalize the deployment of complex, enterprise-grade cloud services that leverage multiple services and platforms, ensuring high availability, scalability, robustness, and observability. - Be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of these services, ensuring their scalability, reliability, and security. - Drive improvements for systems and engineering processes with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets. - Deliver value through a collaborative approach spanning multiple teams across geographies. - Be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem-solving. - Support and influence the team culture towards customer-centricity and continuous improvement. - Implement practices that ensure accurate, safe, and efficient releases for our services. Required Qualifications - 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.. - 3+ years of experience in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures and algorithms, with problem solving, debugging and analytical skills. - 2+ years' experience in design and implementation of large-scale cloud services. Preferred Qualifications - Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, along with 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python; OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, along with 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python; OR equivalent experience. - Industry experience with cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, Google). - Experience with distributed systems, micro-service architecture, scalability patterns, and high-availability architectures. - Experience with Pub/Sub systems and streaming ingestion systems. - Proven experience in driving large strategic and complex or ambiguous projects that span organizations. - Proficient in problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to debugging and performance optimization. - Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to lead technical discussions. - Passion for customer-focused innovation. - Experience in deploying, monitoring, and operating services in the cloud. - Ability to learn quickly and self-motivated. - Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes. - Familiarity with modern engineering practices such as CI/CD and version control systems like Git. Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Key Skills
Software EngineeringCloud ServicesCC++C#JavaJavaScriptPythonData StructuresAlgorithmsProblem SolvingDebuggingMicro-Service ArchitectureAgileCI/CDGit
Categories
TechnologySoftwareEngineering
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