20 hours ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture and hands-on development of a self-service infrastructure buildout platform from declarative service definitions through provisioning, deployment, and validation.
- Design distributed workflows with dependency ordering, approval gates, durable state tracking, safe retries, and recovery from partial failures.
- Write and review secure production code and establish automated testing, integration testing, and safe deployment practices.
- Partner with service teams, Azure, and Microsoft 365 engineering teams to define requirements, integration contracts, ownership boundaries, readiness signals, and completion criteria.
- Develop and apply AI-assisted engineering workflows, including coding agents and automated pull requests, with human review, evaluation, and Responsible AI controls.
- Build security, privacy, compliance, accessibility, and auditability into the platform while preserving authorization and capacity approvals.
- Own operational reliability through telemetry, on-call participation, incident response, and continuous improvement.
- Mentor engineers, lead cross-team design reviews, and translate technical strategy into deliverable milestones.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in 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 with 8+ years of experience, or bachelor's degree with 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience architecting, developing, and operating large-scale distributed systems on Microsoft Azure or similar cloud platforms.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and automated deployment pipelines.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Ev2 or comparable large-scale deployment orchestration systems.
- Experience designing infrastructure orchestration with dependency management, safe deployment practices, and recovery from partial failures.
- Demonstrated success reducing manual engineering effort through reusable tooling and self-service platform capabilities.
- Experience with AI-assisted development and coding agents supported by rigorous code review, automated testing, and security controls.
- Demonstrated cross-team technical leadership, architectural decision-making, mentoring, and communication of engineering trade-offs.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is $142,800-$274,800 per year, with a separate range for specified San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan locations.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for a minimum of five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
Tech Stack
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.