Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

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15 hours ago
Redmond, WA, USA +2 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$120k - $261k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the design, implementation, rollout, and operation of significant COSMIC App Platform features and services.
  • Build distributed platform and orchestration components for AI-agent-driven deployment, capacity, resiliency, recovery, and optimization workflows at fleet scale.
  • Design safety boundaries including sandbox isolation, scoped identity and access, policy and approval checks, auditable execution, rollback, blast-radius containment, and human oversight.
  • Drive production readiness through health-gated releases, observability, alerts, runbooks, on-call support, and incident follow-up.
  • Build evaluation, experimentation, feedback, and learning loops with measurable system-quality and operational outcomes.
  • Translate customer and operational needs into designs, testable software, success criteria, and end-to-end scenarios.
  • Investigate production issues using telemetry and data, identify root causes, and deliver durable reliability and supportability improvements.
  • Lead technical reviews, contribute to architecture and roadmap decisions, mentor engineers, and improve reusable engineering patterns and tooling.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience involving coding.
  • Coding experience in one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, or Rust.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Preferred experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems, cloud services, or Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
  • Preferred experience owning complex features or services through production, including reliability, instrumentation, and supportability.
  • Preferred experience with production AI or agent systems, workflow orchestration, control planes, or intelligent automation.
  • Preferred experience implementing safety, policy, identity, authorization, observability, evaluation, or approval mechanisms for automated systems.
  • Preferred solid coding, debugging, testing, and systems design skills with attention to maintainability and operational quality.
  • Preferred experience using telemetry, experiments, and customer feedback to improve product and system outcomes.
  • Preferred ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and collaborate across engineering and product disciplines.
  • A master's degree with 6+ years of experience, a bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience is also listed as a preferred qualification.

Benefits

  • The typical U.S. base pay range is $119,800-$234,700 per year, with a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range of $160,200-$261,000 per year.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The position is open for a minimum of 5 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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