Senior Software Engineer - CoreAI
About The Position
Microsoft is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its Core Services team, based in the United States, to help Azure DevOps scale and address major service-wide opportunities. The role focuses in part on scaling Azure DevOps and GitHub scenarios and includes contributing across both codebases to build customer-focused solutions. The engineer will primarily design, develop, test, and support features in C#, provide technical leadership, and help operate highly available services used by companies and millions of developers. The team seeks self-driven engineers with a positive attitude, an interest in clean code and customer support, and curiosity about AI and LLM-powered tools for developer productivity. The role includes troubleshooting complex issues across frontend, database, and other technology layers; participating in an on-call rotation and improving service health; and supporting colleagues through mentoring, pairing, code reviews, and delegation. Applicants must 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and at least 4 years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including 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
- At least 8 years of professional experience using C#, C, C++, Java, or JavaScript.
- At least 1 year of experience with Azure DevOps.
- Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience building and operating large-scale multi-tenant services.
- Applied knowledge of system design, algorithms, and data structures.
- Experience designing, building, and running large-scale, highly available cloud services or distributed systems.
- Troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing, storage, and distributed-services layers.
- Passion for high availability, automation, performance, and building highly available distributed systems at scale.
- Practice of modern software engineering, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and releasing.
- Knowledge of Azure Cloud, Power Platform, or Dynamics 365.
- General database knowledge and experience working with data at high scale.
- Growth mindset and ability to treat challenges as opportunities to learn, create clarity, generate energy, and deliver success.
- Ability to break down complex problems into smaller, incremental steps that can be safely and quickly rolled out to production.
- Collaboration skills, including effective use of asynchronous communication while working with globally distributed teams.
- Commitment to quality and customer experience.
- Interest in experimenting with LLM-powered tools and exploring opportunities in developer productivity.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, and support features, experiences, and solutions, primarily in C#.
- Lead and provide technical direction for the design and development of features, experiences, and solutions for end-to-end business scenarios.
- Support highly available services used daily by top companies and millions of developers.
- Troubleshoot complex issues throughout the technology stack, including frontend and database layers.
- Participate in team on-call rotations, triage and respond to issues, and advocate for improvements to service health.
- Mentor, pair, participate in code reviews, and delegate work to support the professional and technical growth of colleagues.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
