3 days ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Set technical direction and drive architecture for complex, high-scale distributed services, big data processing, and AI-powered systems.
- Lead complex initiatives across teams by resolving ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, managing dependencies, and driving measurable outcomes.
- Identify systemic engineering issues and improve service reliability, performance, security, maintainability, and operational efficiency.
- Lead architecture, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and code reviews while establishing engineering patterns and standards.
- Mentor and coach engineers and help develop technical leadership across the organization.
- Use customer signals, operational data, and engineering insights to prioritize investments and deliver customer and business impact.
- Influence technical and product decisions across organizational and discipline boundaries.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical discipline and 6+ years of software engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience designing and delivering complex, large-scale production systems.
- Technical depth in distributed systems, cloud services, large-scale data processing, storage, or big data platforms.
- Experience driving technical direction and delivering complex initiatives across multiple engineers or teams.
- Strong coding and debugging skills in C++, C#, Java, Python, or equivalent languages.
- Experience with Azure cloud technologies and large-scale distributed data processing platforms such as Apache Spark.
- Experience designing or shipping AI-powered capabilities, including LLM-based systems.
- Ability to influence technical direction across teams and turn ambiguous problems into executable engineering strategies.
- Strong customer orientation, engineering judgment, and bias toward action and results.
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.