Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years technical engineering experience; preferred alternatives include 6+ years with a Master's Degree or 8+ 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 a shared engineering platform that improves developer productivity, reliability, security, and delivery through distributed systems and AI-enabled tools.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate platform features end to end, including automated validation, progressive rollout, observability, and recovery tools.
- Develop AI-assisted and agent-based engineering workflows for troubleshooting, testing, migrations, and operational analysis, with evaluations and safeguards.
- Shape platform technical direction, collaborate with partner teams, and contribute to design reviews, mentoring, and adoption of platform features.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in a listed language, OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Nice to have
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems or shared platform services in production.
- Hands-on experience integrating large language models or agents into engineering workflows, including tool integration, evaluation, permission boundaries, and human oversight.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python
AI focus
Build AI-assisted and agent-based engineering workflows for troubleshooting, testing, migrations, and operational analysis; add evaluations and safeguards for trustworthy use.
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