Senior Software Engineer
About The Position
Microsoft’s Cloud+AI Microsoft Specialized Clouds team deploys and operates services and supporting infrastructure for collaboration and mission-critical workloads. The team contributes to Microsoft’s sovereign cloud capabilities, enabling platforms to operate independently when required while remaining aligned with the core Azure ecosystem. The Senior Software Engineer designs, builds, and operates critical cloud services foundational to platform reliability, security, and scalability. The engineer owns components end-to-end, from design and implementation through deployment and live-site operations, and partners with architects and program managers to influence technical direction. The role includes serving as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), maintaining high engineering standards, and proactively identifying and resolving reliability, performance, and operability gaps. The position offers opportunities to develop expertise in globally distributed systems, influence architectural and platform decisions, and grow as a technical leader through ownership, mentorship, and high-impact problem solving.
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 stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
- Identify dependencies and develop 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 project plans, release plans, and work items.
- Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), guide other engineers, follow the playbook, and participate in on-call monitoring for degradation, downtime, or interruptions; communicate status and initiate actions to restore services for simple and complex problems as appropriate.
- Seek new knowledge and adapt to trends, technical solutions, and patterns that improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance, while promoting consistent monitoring and operations at scale.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; details are available at the linked Microsoft careers pay and benefits page.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
