Senior Software Engineer

<b>Overview</b><br><div><table style="width:1604.0px" width="292"><colgroup><col style="width:1603.0px" width="292"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:14.25pt"><td style="width:219.0pt;height:14.25pt" width="292" height="19"><p><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Are you a customer-obsessed, AI-curious problem-solver who thrives in an inclusive, collaborative global team? Join Engineering Operations (EngOps) – the organization driving operational excellence across the Microsoft Cloud to strengthen quality, reliability, security, and customer trust. As part of EngOps, you’ll design solutions that prevent issues before they happen, embed AI-powered automation, and turn signals into actions that deliver measurable customer impact. Our culture of empowerment, inclusion, and growth mindset defines how we work. </span><br><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Azure Reliability is driving transformation to AI-powered operations by building scalable ML infrastructure that enables autonomous, reliable, and secure cloud systems. We are looking for candidates that can combine deep technical expertise in MLOps with a proven ability to deliver measurable business impact through continuous learning, policy-driven governance, and responsible AI practices. Success in this role means advancing operational autonomy, quality, and security, while fostering collaboration and accountability across teams. </span><br><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Every day, customers stake their business and reputation on our cloud. You can help #EngOps keep them secure, resilient, and ready. </span><br><br><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">This role will require a minimum of three days in office. </span></p><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Company Culture Statement</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">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.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p> </p><br><br><b>Responsibilities</b><br><div><table style="width: 1625.0px;" width="139"><colgroup><col style="width: 1624.0px;" width="139"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 14.25pt;"><td style="width: 104.0pt; height: 14.25pt;" width="139" height="19"><p><strong><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Responsibilities </span></strong></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Partner across multiple product groups to apply subject-matter expertise in distributed systems design practices, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, basic dependencies at scale, and the code that defines infrastructures. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Lead by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.  </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Develop and evangelize insights, best practices, and standards that can be applied to improve system, platform, and/or product development and operations across the business.  </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Drive continuous improvements in the architecture, code, features, operations and comprehensive use scenarios of products by leveraging end-to-end technical expertise. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Make improvements to the product fundamentals and architecture, share knowledge and code, always looking for ways to make what we build useful to multiple teams and products.    </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Demonstrate end-to-end expertise in distributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Provide technical leadership in test maturity reviews, static analysis reviews, meetings, on-call rotations, and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles.  </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Provides deep business and technical expertise as required to resolve major incidents. </span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p> </p><br><br><b>Qualifications</b><br><div><table style="width: 1617.0px;" width="134"><colgroup><col style="width: 1616.0px;" width="134"></colgroup><tbody><tr style="height: 14.25pt;"><td style="width: 101.0pt; height: 14.25pt;" width="134" height="19"><div><div><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Required Qualifications</strong></span></div></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">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</span></p><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">OR equivalent experience. </span></p></li></ul></li></ul><p><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Other Requirements</strong></span></p><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">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:</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.</span></li></ul></li></ul><p style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Preferred qualifications</strong></p><div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">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. </span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">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.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt;">Strong software engineering background with demonstrated experience in technical program management and driving cross-functional initiatives. </span></li></ul></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p> </p> <br><br><p>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. </p><p></p> <p>Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:<br><a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay">https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay</a></p><br><p>This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.</p><br><hr><br><p>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 <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html"><b><u>requesting accommodations.</u></b></a></p>