Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

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Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate scalable services for AI-driven productivity experiences.
  • Develop systems supporting intelligent reasoning, planning, information retrieval, and task execution across complex workflows.
  • Partner with product managers, designers, researchers, and data scientists to identify customer problems and deliver solutions.
  • Use large language models and modern AI technologies to create trustworthy user experiences.
  • Drive experimentation and use telemetry and customer feedback to improve quality, adoption, and satisfaction.
  • Contribute to architecture, technical design, operational excellence, and engineering best practices.
  • Lead feature development from concept through production while balancing innovation, reliability, performance, and maintainability.
  • Mentor engineers and promote technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • Preferred: 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production services or applications.
  • Strong programming skills in C#, Java, C++, or Python.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
  • Strong foundations in system design, debugging, testing, and operational excellence.
  • Ability to solve complex technical problems and deliver customer-facing solutions.
  • Experience building AI-powered products or platforms.
  • Familiarity with large language models, retrieval systems, semantic search, AI agents, or orchestration frameworks.
  • Experience developing systems for complex, multi-step user workflows.
  • Background in experimentation, telemetry analysis, and data-driven product development.
  • Experience working across disciplines to bring products from concept to launch.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
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10,000+ employees

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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