Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

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16 hours ago
Redmond, WA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$120k - $261k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and build large-scale distributed services for fleet reliability, hardware health, and operational efficiency.
  • Develop telemetry and analytics platforms that process infrastructure health signals at hyperscale.
  • Build predictive models and intelligent services for hardware failure detection, repair recommendations, anomaly detection, and fleet risk forecasting.
  • Analyze telemetry from servers, storage, networking, rack infrastructure, and datacenter systems to improve reliability and availability.
  • Develop AI-assisted experiences for incident investigation, root cause analysis, and repair decision-making.
  • Design safe automation and remediation workflows while maintaining strong operational controls.
  • Partner with hardware, reliability, capacity planning, Fleet Management, and Azure Infrastructure teams.
  • Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and live-site operations.
  • Drive projects from design through deployment and operational ownership, mentor engineers, and contribute to engineering excellence.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Proficiency with one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
  • Experience designing and operating distributed systems and cloud services at scale is preferred.
  • Experience with hardware infrastructure, storage systems, server platforms, networking systems, or datacenter operations is preferred.
  • Experience with data science, statistics, machine learning, forecasting, anomaly detection, or predictive analytics is preferred.
  • Experience with telemetry and data platforms such as Azure Data Explorer (Kusto), Spark, Fabric, or Databricks is preferred.
  • Experience developing AI-powered operational tools, intelligent automation systems, or agent-based solutions is preferred.
  • Experience with hardware reliability engineering, fleet management, capacity planning, or infrastructure health monitoring is preferred.
  • Experience with Microsoft 365 components such as Exchange, Substrate, or SharePoint is preferred.
  • Ability to independently drive complex technical projects from concept through production deployment and influence across organizations is preferred.
  • Tier 2 or Tier 3 United States Government clearance to work in secure Microsoft cloud environments is preferred.
  • A master’s degree with 6+ years of experience or a bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience is also listed as a preferred qualification, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • The position is based in Redmond, Washington and requires working in the office at least 3 days per week.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

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Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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