Microsoft
Senior Software Development Engineer
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA +2 · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Location
- Redmond, WA
Austin, TX
Mountain View, CA - Experience
- 4+ years technical engineering experience; preferred data-related experience: 2+ years with a master's degree or 4+ years with a bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Build and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure systems that manage and monitor Azure hardware, improving reliability, availability, performance, and fleet-management efficiency.
What you'll do
- Develop control-plane tooling and use data science to provide business insights.
- Enhance device telemetry, hardware health monitoring, signal processing, and automated remediation workflows.
- Improve live-site reliability through monitoring, debugging, root-cause analysis, repair loops, and collaboration across hardware, firmware, platform, and partner teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in a listed language, or equivalent experience.
- Pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice to have
- Master's degree in a listed field and 2+ years of relevant data analysis, data science, business intelligence, or business/financial analysis experience; or bachelor's degree in a listed field and 4+ years of such experience; or equivalent experience.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base pay); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base pay)
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python
AI focus
Leverage data science and AI capabilities to improve infrastructure efficiency; integrate AI developer tools and build AI applications to streamline fleet management and quality improvement.
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