Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

18h • $119,800 - $261,000

About The Position

Are you excited by the challenge of building and scaling large, Kubernetes-based service platforms? Do you thrive in a collaborative engineering environment where your work has global impact? If so, we’d love to connect with you. We are the COSMIC Capacity team, part of the platform that powers some of the largest-scale services in Microsoft, including Copilot and LLM APIs. This team ensures that customer workloads are placed reliably with sufficient quota and capacity, and that runtime scaling and provisioning succeed across dynamic and heterogeneous environments. We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build services for COSMIC Capacity and Quota management, auto-scaling etc. You will be part of a high-performing, cross-functional team building multi-tenant, high-throughput services with a strong focus on reliability and performance. Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

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 are required for this role.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable services for provisioning, capacity validation, and autoscaling.
• Automate service movement across regions using real-time capacity signals
• Develop quota management automation to minimize provisioning delays.
• Integrate with M365 Capacity systems to streamline capacity allocation process.
• Support reliability, observability, security, and compliance standards.

Benefits

• Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior