Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years technical engineering experience; equivalent experience is an alternative. Preferred: Senior/Lead Engineer professional software development experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Develop Semantic Fabric’s large-scale ingestion, indexing, and search services to provide fresh, low-latency enterprise data grounding for Microsoft Copilot and M365.
What you'll do
- Build scalable, high-performance software services over large datasets, with low latency and high availability.
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain Semantic Fabric solutions while meeting privacy, security, and compliance standards.
- Collaborate on architecture and integration; identify and address technical debt, performance, reliability, and delivery risks.
What they ask for
- 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.
Nice to have
- Senior/Lead Engineer professional software development experience with at least two of the following C#/C++/Java, ASP.NET, and RUST.
- Experience with distributed systems and cloud services, search or information retrieval, and applications of LLM and/or vector indexes.
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, ASP.NET, RUST
AI focus
Build semantic indexing and search that supplies enterprise grounding data to LLM-powered Copilot; the role also involves keeping informed about LLM and semantic search developments and applying relevant methods or technologies.
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