14 hours ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, development, and delivery of high-throughput, multi-tenant Tier 0 services.
- Define technical direction for complex distributed systems, including scalability, reliability, security, performance, cost, dependencies, and failure-mode tradeoffs.
- Design and build secure, extensible, performant, and thoroughly tested software through hands-on technical leadership.
- Establish coding patterns, observability standards, and service-health metrics that improve quality and operational efficiency.
- Lead live-site investigations, mitigation, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvements.
- Identify technical risks and dependencies, drive mitigation strategies, and lead architecture, design, and code reviews.
- Partner across engineering, product, security, and other disciplines to deliver solutions spanning multiple services and teams.
- Mentor and develop engineers through technical guidance, feedback, and knowledge sharing.
- Apply an AI-first mindset to product capabilities and software design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and operations.
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 and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: 3+ years designing, building, shipping, and operating large-scale distributed or multi-tenant cloud services in production.
- Preferred: 2+ years owning highly available production services, including on-call or live-site response, observability, root-cause analysis, and systemic incident improvements.
- Preferred: 2+ years delivering cloud-native services on Azure, AWS, or GCP using containerization, microservices, and orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $142,800–$274,800 per year, with a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range of USD $188,000–$304,200 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position will remain open for a minimum of 5 days and accept applications on an ongoing basis until filled.
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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.