Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Microsoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Cloud+AI Microsoft Specialized Clouds team. The team deploys and operates services and supporting infrastructure for collaboration and mission-critical workloads, contributing to sovereign cloud capabilities that can operate independently when required while remaining aligned with the core Azure ecosystem. In this role, you will design, build, and operate critical cloud services foundational to platform reliability, security, and scalability. You will own components end to end, from design and implementation through deployment and live-site operations, and partner with architects and program managers to influence technical direction. You will act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), uphold high engineering standards, and identify and address reliability, performance, and operability gaps. The opportunity supports growth in distributed systems expertise, architectural judgment, technical leadership, mentorship, and high-impact problem solving. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Employees work with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, collaborate toward shared goals, and build on values of respect, integrity, and accountability.

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

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.
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.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
Drive identification of dependencies and development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment.
Apply subject-matter expertise in product features and partner with stakeholders, such as project managers, to drive workgroup project plans, release plans, and work items.
Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), guide other engineers in developing and following the playbook, and work on call to monitor systems for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
Alert stakeholders to service status and initiate actions to restore systems for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
Seek new knowledge and adapt to trends, technical solutions, and patterns that improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance, while driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.