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Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive a platform roadmap aligned with engineering-team and business needs.
- Develop AI-assisted and agent-based capabilities for troubleshooting, testing, migrations, and operational analysis, including evaluations and safeguards.
- Build self-service platform capabilities by working directly with partner engineering teams.
- Implement automated validation, progressive rollout, observability, and recovery mechanisms for safer delivery.
- Lead initiatives from problem definition and architecture through implementation, adoption, and ongoing operation.
- Use developer experience, reliability, performance, and cost metrics to measure outcomes.
- Lead cross-organizational technical initiatives, resolve ambiguous problems, and align stakeholders on tradeoffs.
- Write production code, mentor engineers, guide design reviews, and raise engineering standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Alternatively, a master’s degree and 8+ years of experience, or a bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems or shared platform services in production.
- Experience building platforms or developer tools adopted across multiple teams with measurable productivity, reliability, or efficiency improvements.
- Hands-on experience integrating large language models or agents into engineering workflows, including tool integration, evaluation, permission boundaries, and human oversight.
- Experience designing interfaces and workflows for both human developers and AI agents with clear contracts, discoverable capabilities, and auditable execution.
- Depth in one or more platform domains such as service frameworks, data infrastructure, observability, CI/CD, experimentation, configuration management, or cloud infrastructure.
- Experience using telemetry, profiling, and production investigations to improve performance or cost.
- Experience modernizing established systems through incremental architecture changes and migrations.
- Strong systems engineering fundamentals in API design, concurrency, data management, failure handling, and performance analysis.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across multiple teams, including architectural decisions and delivery through production adoption.
- Ability to translate ambiguous requirements into practical, maintainable technical solutions and communicate tradeoffs effectively.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Experience mentoring engineers and collaborating across organizational boundaries.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $142,800–$274,800 per year; a different range applies in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation support during the application process.
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About Microsoft
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.