Microsoft
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Senior Software Engineer

Pay
$119,800 – $234,700 per year
Location
United States
Job type
Full-time
Level
Senior
Experience
4+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
28 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • distributed systems
  • system design
  • C#
  • Java
  • Python

Also useful

  • Computer Architecture
  • High-Performance Computing

Stated benefits & perks

  • Health

Overview

Are you interested in building complex things using a large number of simple components efficiently, safely, consistently and at scale? Come join a team that values diversity, inclusion, and working better together to expand the foundation and the core of Azure.

As a Senior Software Architect in the Microsoft Capacity Infrastructure Services organization, you will be responsible for working with stakeholders to evolve Azure, from its data center infrastructure to its software and service stack, to their respective lifecycle management, in order to meet rapidly changing customer needs for capacity and services, especially those related to AI, with a focus on new platform capabilities.

This opportunity will allow you to further develop your system design, problem-solving and leadership skills, become adept at cooperating and collaborating with many teams to achieve shared goals, and learn, grow and innovate together with your teammates.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

  • Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for one or more complex scenarios.
  • Provides technical leadership for the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a tool, service, or platform.
  • Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the company.
  • Leverages deep subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to lead multiple product's project plans, release plans, and work items.
  • Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, and working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
  • Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements

  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years engineering experience with distributed systems, with proven problem-solving and system design skills.
  • 3+ years engineering experience with either Computer Architecture or High-Performance Computing.

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Pay and benefits

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Read the original posting

From Microsoft's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 11, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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