1 day ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Shape the platform roadmap by identifying gaps, proposing architectural improvements, and connecting designs to engineering-team needs.
- Build AI-assisted and agent-based features for troubleshooting, testing, migrations, and operational analysis, including evaluations and safeguards.
- Develop self-service platform features by working with partner teams to understand and solve their engineering challenges.
- Build automated validation, progressive rollout, observability, and recovery tools for safer production delivery.
- Own significant platform features end to end, from design and implementation through adoption and ongoing operation.
- Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders on priorities, technical tradeoffs, ambiguous problems, and shared technical approaches.
- Write high-quality production code, participate in design reviews, mentor engineers, and contribute to engineering standards.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
- Coding experience in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems or shared platform services in production is preferred.
- Experience building platform components or developer tools used by multiple teams is preferred.
- Hands-on experience integrating large language models or agents into engineering workflows, including tool integration, evaluation, permission boundaries, and human oversight, is preferred.
- Experience with platform areas such as service frameworks, data infrastructure, observability, CI/CD, experimentation, configuration management, or cloud infrastructure is preferred.
- Experience with telemetry, profiling, production investigations, system modernization, migrations, API design, concurrency, data management, failure handling, and performance analysis is preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver complex technical projects from design through production, resolve ambiguous requirements, communicate tradeoffs, and help other engineers grow is preferred.
Benefits
- The general U.S. base pay range is $119,800-$234,700 per year; different ranges apply to 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.
- Employment requires passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
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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.