Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer - Substrate Store

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Redmond, WA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$120k - $261k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver modernization of Store Access APIs and integrations across the Substrate Storage Fabric and Microsoft 365 services.
  • Build and optimize high-throughput, low-latency APIs using concurrency control, resource governance, caching, and back-pressure mechanisms.
  • Improve Azure-based search systems, including index freshness, query performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
  • Define interfaces, resolve cross-team dependencies, and ensure designs meet performance, reliability, disaster recovery, security, privacy, compliance, and accessibility requirements.
  • Write maintainable, tested, secure, and performant C# and Rust code, and conduct code and design reviews.
  • Develop telemetry, dashboards, alerts, and quality metrics to support production operation and troubleshooting.
  • Use and evaluate AI-assisted development tools while validating generated engineering and operational assets.
  • Mentor engineers and strengthen development and engineering practices.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience designing and optimizing high-throughput, low-latency APIs and services, including concurrency control, resource management, caching, and API contracts.
  • Proficiency in C# and/or Rust, with understanding of system performance, memory management, concurrency, and multithreading.
  • Experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems with reliability, observability, testing, and safe deployment practices.
  • Experience owning significant software components from technical design through implementation, deployment, and production support.
  • Experience troubleshooting production issues and participating in on-call support for customer-facing services.
  • Ability to mentor engineers, provide code and design reviews, and collaborate across teams.

Benefits

  • Typical U.S. base pay range is $119,800-$234,700 per year, with a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City range of $160,200-$261,000 per year.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the position open for a minimum of 5 days.
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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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