Microsoft

Senior Backend Software Engineer, Dataverse

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1 day ago
Redmond, WA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$120k - $261k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate distributed cloud services powering Dataverse Runtime and global customer workloads.
  • Develop platform capabilities that enable AI agents, copilots, and intelligent applications to securely access enterprise data, execute business logic, and automate workflows.
  • Drive reliability, scalability, security, performance, and operational excellence improvements across core runtime services.
  • Lead technical architecture, design reviews, and engineering decisions across feature areas and partner teams.
  • Own services through design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, live-site support, and continuous improvement.
  • Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual for production services, including on-call rotations, incident mitigation, root cause analysis, and reliability work.
  • Use AI-powered engineering tools and workflows to improve development velocity, code quality, operations, and productivity.
  • Mentor engineers and establish modern software engineering, AI-assisted development, and operational best practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience developing software with C#, Java, C++, Python, or similar programming languages.
  • Experience driving technical initiatives across multiple services, components, or engineering teams.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and experience diagnosing and resolving complex production issues.
  • Experience with service operations, monitoring, incident response, and operational excellence.
  • Experience using AI-powered development tools across design, implementation, testing, debugging, operations, and productivity workflows.
  • Experience building large-scale SaaS platforms for enterprise customers.
  • Experience with Azure services, cloud-native architectures, distributed messaging systems, storage systems, and large-scale data platforms.
  • Experience operating highly available production services at scale.
  • Experience building developer platforms, extensibility frameworks, APIs, workflow engines, or execution runtimes.
  • Experience designing or developing AI-powered applications, copilots, agents, agent orchestration frameworks, or intelligent workflow systems.
  • Experience creating AI-enabled engineering solutions such as custom agents, skills, automation workflows, or developer productivity tools.
  • Experience using AI technologies for incident investigation, root cause analysis, testing, deployment, operational excellence, or software delivery.
  • Track record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical decisions across organizational boundaries.
  • 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 6+ years of experience or a bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • Base pay is listed for U.S. locations, with a separate range for the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The position is open for at least five days and accepts applications on an ongoing basis until filled.
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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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