Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer - FDE

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3 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test, and operate secure, reliable, scalable production software and services.
  • Partner with customers and stakeholders to clarify requirements, define success metrics, and create technical designs.
  • Lead technical workstreams, align stakeholders, break down ambiguous problems, and drive execution through delivery.
  • Deliver customer solutions end to end by prototyping, iterating on feedback, and meeting quality, performance, and maintainability goals.
  • Build reusable components, reference implementations, and patterns for use across teams and engagements.
  • Apply engineering best practices including code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and documentation.
  • Follow Microsoft security and compliance requirements throughout design and delivery.
  • Collaborate with engineering, data science, product, design, security, and domain experts.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end to end.
  • Preferred: master’s degree and 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: experience designing, deploying, and operating AI or LLM-based solutions, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented approaches, model tuning, evaluation, data quality, performance monitoring, and cloud AI platforms.
  • Comfort with travel up to 25%.

Benefits

  • The role is based in the United Kingdom and may include benefits and other compensation.
  • Travel of up to 25% is expected.
  • Applications remain open for a minimum of 5 days and are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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Forward Deployed
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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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