Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

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1 day ago
Redmond, WA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$120k - $261k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate highly scalable distributed services for AI-driven communications and collaboration experiences.
  • Develop platforms that extract insights and semantic understanding from voice, video, screen sharing, and meeting interactions.
  • Drive system architecture, technical design, scalability, reliability, security, performance, observability, automation, and operational excellence.
  • Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, designers, and partner engineering teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.
  • Use AI technologies, agentic workflows, and cloud services to create intelligent enterprise experiences.
  • Improve service health through observability, automation, incident response, and production operations.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to design and code reviews.
  • Own delivery from design and implementation through production operations and customer impact.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Experience building large-scale distributed systems, cloud services, or enterprise platforms is preferred.
  • Experience designing reliable, highly available, and observable production services is preferred.
  • Familiarity with AI/ML technologies, LLMs, agentic systems, NLP, speech technologies, or real-time communications platforms is preferred.
  • Experience with prompt engineering, evaluation strategies, model hosting best practices, and media services is preferred.
  • Master's degree with 6+ years of experience or bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience is listed as preferred, or equivalent experience.
  • Strong problem-solving, collaboration, technical influence, innovation, and global-scale engineering abilities are preferred.

Benefits

  • The role is based in Redmond, Washington and requires working in the office at least three days per week.
  • The position may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The role is open for a minimum of five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.

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About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

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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