2 days ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for the architecture and evolution of large-scale distributed cloud platforms and services.
- Solve complex engineering problems and translate them into scalable architectures and technical strategies.
- Design systems using AI and automation for monitoring, investigation, diagnosis, and cloud service operations.
- Define reusable platform capabilities, APIs, architectural patterns, and engineering standards for multiple teams.
- Drive architectural decisions across services and teams while balancing scalability, reliability, security, performance, extensibility, and engineering velocity.
- Lead initiatives from early problem definition and architecture through implementation, rollout, and operational maturity.
- Establish engineering practices for quality, testing, observability, security, privacy, and operational excellence.
- Use production learnings and data to identify systemic improvements and influence platform investments.
- Mentor engineers and technical leaders through design reviews, technical guidance, and hands-on leadership.
- Build cross-organizational partnerships and alignment for solutions involving multiple teams and technologies.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
- Preferred: master's degree and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor's degree and 12+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems, cloud services, or platform technologies.
- Experience with AI-assisted systems, AI agents, machine learning, or intelligent automation.
- Experience with observability technologies such as metrics, logs, traces, telemetry pipelines, or service-health systems.
- Experience with workflow, orchestration, or automation platforms.
- Experience building extensible platforms, frameworks, or developer experiences used by multiple engineering teams.
- Ability to define technical vision and translate it into a long-term engineering strategy.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across an organization.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
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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.