Microsoft

Software Engineer

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5 days ago
Redmond, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$85k - $184k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Work with product, privacy, security, and technical stakeholders to define customer and user requirements.
  • Design and implement extensible, maintainable, diagnosable, and reliable code for data products, services, and features.
  • Build and operate Python services, data platforms, metrics APIs, developer-facing tools, and AI-powered engineering solutions.
  • Develop dimensional models, analytical capabilities, MCP servers, and integrations with LLM-powered tools or AI agents.
  • Use AI tools and coding assistants responsibly across the software development lifecycle, reviewing generated changes.
  • Serve as an on-call designated responsible individual, monitor services for degradation or downtime, and respond to incidents within SLA requirements.
  • Identify reusable internal or open-source code and help improve engineering tools and developer productivity solutions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline with proven coding experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience coding in one or more languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud background check and applicable customer or government security screening requirements.
  • Preferred experience with dimensional modeling, analytics engineering, star schemas, medallion architecture, or semantic layers.
  • Preferred experience with SQL, KQL, Azure Data Explorer, or similar analytical query languages.
  • Preferred experience with Spark-based big data platforms such as Databricks.
  • Preferred experience building web applications, MCP servers, LLM-powered tools, or AI agents.
  • Preferred experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, production monitoring, and observability.
  • Preferred quantitative aptitude related to metric definitions, data quality, and statistical validity.
  • Preferred familiarity with DORA, SPACE, or similar developer productivity frameworks and experience collaborating with data and applied scientists.
  • Preferred demonstrated effective use of AI coding assistants in daily development.

Benefits

  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The position requires Microsoft Cloud background screening upon hire or transfer and every two years.
  • Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for a minimum of five days.

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AI ApplicationsData Engineering
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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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