Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

2d • $119,800 - $261,000

About The Position

Build platforms, tooling, and automation that help Microsoft engineering teams address security, compliance, and sovereign cloud readiness challenges earlier and at scale. The role uses an AI-first engineering mindset, including agentic workflows, reusable skills, data, and automation, to improve engineering processes and developer experience. The team builds and uses its own platform to solve real problems and continuously improve its capabilities. This position involves large-scale technical challenges, ambiguity, cross-organizational partnerships, and creating platforms that multiply the impact of other engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience 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, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building security, compliance, governance, or cloud-readiness platforms and tooling.
• Experience with sovereign cloud or large-scale cloud deployment readiness.
• Experience with Azure Data Explorer and large-scale analytical systems.
• Experience applying AI, agents, or agentic workflows to engineering automation and developer productivity.
• Experience building platforms or developer tooling used by multiple teams or organizations.
• Experience building production software with C# or comparable modern programming languages.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems and cloud services.
• Experience with Azure or comparable cloud technologies.
• Experience working with large-scale data, telemetry, monitoring, or operational systems.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguous technical problems and drive solutions from design through implementation.
• Demonstrated success collaborating and influencing across team and organizational boundaries.
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing technical leadership to a team.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate secure, reliable distributed systems and engineering platforms at Microsoft scale.
• Develop tooling and automation that improve sovereign cloud readiness, security, compliance, and developer productivity.
• Apply AI-first engineering practices, including agentic workflows and reusable agentic skills, to automate complex engineering processes.
• Build data-driven solutions that turn engineering and operational signals into actionable insights.
• Develop solutions using technologies such as C#, Azure, Azure Data Explorer, and Azure monitoring and alerting technologies.
• Partner across organizations to understand engineering challenges, influence technical direction, and drive adoption of scalable solutions.
• Contribute to architecture and technical strategy while remaining hands-on in implementation and operation.
• Mentor other engineers and help foster a collaborative culture of learning, experimentation, and shared ownership.

What This Job Offers

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