3 days ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Navigate ambiguous technical problems, rapidly understand unfamiliar codebases, form hypotheses, and scope projects with measurable success criteria.
- Own high-visibility technical projects end to end, from problem framing through deployment and measured impact.
- Coordinate dependencies and deliver changes across teams, repositories, and service boundaries without direct reporting authority.
- Make tradeoffs among reliability, cost, compliance, and time-to-impact under incomplete information.
- Diagnose and resolve latency, scalability, performance, resilience, observability, incident-readiness, and production cost problems in distributed services.
- Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual across products when required.
- Mentor senior and principal engineers, review designs across the organization, and strengthen the engineering community.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Strong coding and design experience in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Rust, or a comparable language.
- Technical leadership experience with complex distributed systems delivered through influence rather than authority.
- Strong distributed-systems fundamentals involving high-scale, low-latency, always-on, cost-efficient services.
- Demonstrated production performance-engineering experience diagnosing and fixing performance and cost problems.
- Experience with modernization at scale, developer productivity, or compliance-constrained engineering.
- Proven ownership of architecture for a significant service or platform component and experience building reliable, resilient services.
- Strong written and verbal communication, cross-group influence, judgment, collaboration, and mentoring skills.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree with 8+ years of experience or a bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- U.S. base pay is listed at USD $142,800–$274,800 per year, with a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City range of USD $188,000–$304,200 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for a minimum of 5 days.
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.