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Senior Software Engineer

Location
Redmond | United States, WA
Job type
Full-time
Level
Senior
Experience
5+ years
Education
Bachelor's degree
Listed
29 days ago

Skills & highlights for this role

  • U.S. citizenship verification
  • C#
  • Java
  • C++
  • cloud services
  • distributed systems

Also useful

  • export control compliance
  • CI/CD
  • observability

About the role

Design, develop, and operate highly available, scalable, secure, and observable cloud services. Drive technical design and implementation for complex engineering problems, evaluating architectural approaches and trade-offs. Drive features and projects end-to-end, from requirements and design through deployment and production readiness.

Build deep domain expertise in cloud infrastructure, global deployment technologies, and sovereign cloud engineering. Collaborate with partner teams to define technical solutions, resolve dependencies, and deliver cross-service capabilities. Improve service reliability and operational excellence through automation, monitoring, diagnostics, and root-cause analysis.

Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering best practices through design reviews, code reviews, and knowledge sharing. 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#, Java, C++ OR equivalent experience.

Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This role will require access to information that is controlled for export under export control regulations, potentially under the U.S. International Traffic in Arms Regulations or Export Administration Regulations, the EU Dual Use Regulation, and/or other export control regulations.

To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate's citizenship will be verified with a valid passport. Lawful permanent residents, refugees, and asylees may verify status using other documents, where applicable. Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.

Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local [or applicable country] government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate's citizenship will be verified via a valid passport.

5+ years of software engineering experience designing, building, and delivering production services. Experience driving complex or ambiguous engineering projects from design through delivery. Deep experience with software design, implementation, testing, and debugging. Demonstrated ability to build reliable, maintainable, and well-tested software.

Advanced collaboration and communication skills across engineering teams and disciplines. Ability to mentor other engineers and provide technical leadership. Passion for delivering high-quality solutions that create customer value.

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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