Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Come help solve security, compliance, and sovereign cloud readiness challenges that become uniquely difficult at Microsoft scale, while helping define what AI-first security engineering looks like.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to build platforms, tooling, and automation that help engineering teams address security, compliance, and sovereign cloud readiness challenges earlier and at scale.Our team embraces an AI-first engineering mindset, using agentic workflows, reusable skills, data, and automation to rethink how engineering work gets done. We are also both builders and customers of our platform, using what we create to solve real problems and continuously improve the developer experience.

This role is ideal for an engineer who enjoys large-scale technical challenges, navigating ambiguity, building strong cross-organizational partnerships, and creating platforms that multiply the impact of other engineers.

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

• Design, build, and operate secure, reliable distributed systems and engineering platforms at Microsoft scale.
• Develop tooling and automation that improve sovereign cloud readiness, security, compliance, and developer productivity.
• Apply AI-first engineering practices, including agentic workflows and reusable agentic skills, to automate complex engineering processes.
• Build data-driven solutions that turn engineering and operational signals into actionable insights.
• Develop solutions using technologies such as C#, Azure, Azure Data Explorer, and Azure monitoring and alerting technologies.
• Partner across organizations to understand engineering challenges, influence technical direction, and drive adoption of scalable solutions.
• Contribute to architecture and technical strategy while remaining hands-on in implementation and operation.
• Mentor other engineers and help foster a collaborative culture of learning, experimentation, and shared ownership.

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

Experience building security, compliance, governance, or cloud-readiness platforms and tooling.

Experience with sovereign cloud or large-scale cloud deployment readiness.

Experience with Azure Data Explorer and large-scale analytical systems.

Experience applying AI, agents, or agentic workflows to engineering automation and developer productivity.

Experience building platforms or developer tooling used by multiple teams or organizations.

Experience building production software with C# or comparable modern programming languages.

Experience designing and operating distributed systems and cloud services.

Experience with Azure or comparable cloud technologies.

Experience working with large-scale data, telemetry, monitoring, or operational systems.

Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguous technical problems and drive solutions from design through implementation.

Demonstrated success collaborating and influencing across team and organizational boundaries.

Experience mentoring engineers and contributing technical leadership to a team.

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:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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