Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

5d•$119,800 - $261,000

About The Position

Microsoft’s Business & Industry Copilots group develops products including Dynamics 365, Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, and AI Builder. The Senior Software Engineer will help build scalable, reliable, secure, and compliant AI infrastructure that powers products across Power Platform. The role involves designing and operating cloud-scale, multi-tenant infrastructure, with a focus on Kubernetes, infrastructure automation, resiliency, and operational excellence. The engineer will work with product, SRE, and Azure platform teams to improve platform reliability and deliver safe regional deployment strategies.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms in production environments.
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as ARM, Bicep, Terraform, or similar.
Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts, including failure domains, consistency, availability, and fault tolerance.
Experience designing for high availability, regional resiliency, and disaster recovery in cloud environments.
Familiarity with cloud networking, storage, and security fundamentals, including identity, access control, and isolation boundaries.
Experience operating large-scale services with an emphasis on reliability engineering, incident response, and postmortem-driven improvements.
Ability to reason about blast radius, dependency management, and safe rollout strategies in complex systems.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate cloud-scale, multi-tenant infrastructure platforms focused on reliability, security, scalability, and operational excellence.
Lead the design and implementation of Kubernetes-based infrastructure, including cluster architecture, networking, storage, and workload isolation.
Build and evolve Infrastructure as Code solutions to support repeatable, auditable, automated infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management.
Design for failure domains, including regional isolation, availability zones, dependency management, and blast-radius reduction.
Drive resiliency and reliability improvements through design reviews, fault modeling, chaos testing, and post-incident learning.
Build tooling and automation to detect, diagnose, and self-heal infrastructure and platform issues.
Identify recurring operational issues and escalations, and develop engineering solutions such as self-healing mechanisms, automation, guardrails, and platform abstractions.
Partner with product, SRE, and Azure platform teams on regional deployment strategies, capacity planning, and safe rollout patterns.
Improve products and platforms by filing impactful bugs, proposing design changes, and shipping production fixes to prevent customer impact.
Communicate complex technical issues and recommendations clearly, influence cross-team decisions, and drive measurable business outcomes.
Contribute to a collaborative, inclusive, and growth-oriented engineering environment.