Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

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Remote, United States or Redmond, WA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$120k - $261k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop production-scale AI capabilities, including container execution and complex document generation.
  • Build core orchestration and runtime systems for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
  • Engineer multimodal, real-time, agentic, computer-use, and tool-use systems for enterprise environments.
  • Write secure, maintainable, well-tested code and provide insightful reviews that coach other engineers.
  • Lead architecture discussions and own tradeoffs involving performance, scalability, resiliency, cost, and disaster recovery.
  • Define regression-prevention test strategies covering security invariants and negative cases.
  • Drive project and release planning, feature-flag experiments, automated deployment, rollback planning, and capacity planning.
  • Serve as an on-call DRI, improve telemetry and observability, lead incident retrospectives, and implement corrective actions.
  • Use AI tools across the software development lifecycle while maintaining the quality of generated code and documentation.
  • Apply security, privacy, accessibility, compliance, and auditable-evidence requirements by design.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Coding experience in one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud background-check and other applicable Microsoft, customer, or government security-screening requirements.
  • Preferred: master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.
  • Experience working end-to-end across planning, design, execution, continuous release, and service operation.
  • Experience shipping internet-scale, low-latency, high-throughput AI products.
  • Customer-, end-result-, and metrics-driven approach to design and development.
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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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