14 hours ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead technical strategy and execution for large, complex, business-critical product areas.
- Architect, design, and guide implementation of secure, scalable, resilient, high-performance distributed systems.
- Set engineering standards and drive design, code quality, automation, and operational excellence.
- Resolve ambiguous requirements, manage cross-team dependencies, decompose multi-quarter initiatives, and improve delivery predictability.
- Establish observability strategy, lead incident response and root-cause analysis, and drive reliability, security, and performance improvements.
- Mentor senior engineers and influence cross-organizational technical decisions and engineering practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Experience coding in one or more of C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of professional software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership delivering large-scale, mission-critical systems across multiple teams, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including technical leadership of large, cross-team initiatives from strategy through production operations.
- Experience architecting and operating large-scale distributed or cloud services with strong reliability, security, and performance outcomes.
- Ability to influence at the organization level through technical vision, architecture governance, and executive-level communication.
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and building engineering capability through design excellence, operational rigor, and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- The role may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis, and the position will be open for a minimum of 5 days.
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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.