Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Nov 2, 2026
- Experience
- Required: 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding; preferred alternatives: 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
Design, build, and operate gateway and ingress systems that route and protect Dynamics 365 and Power Platform traffic, with responsibility for reliability, security, performance, and incident response.
What you'll do
- Develop and operate L4/L7 gateways, proxies, load balancing, and routing for ingress traffic.
- Manage protocol behavior and resilience, including TLS, HTTP/2, gRPC, regional failover, and load testing.
- Improve edge security and observability, respond to incidents, and partner with service teams on traffic and capacity decisions.
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.
- Meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in specified languages, OR Bachelor's Degree in a related technical field AND 8+ years, OR equivalent experience.
- Experience with L4/L7 networking, TLS, HTTP/2, gRPC, C# or Go, production operations, edge platforms, DDoS mitigation, Kubernetes, or high-throughput systems.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
C#, Go, Azure Front Door, TLS, HTTP/2, gRPC, Kubernetes, Envoy
AI focus
The role supports the Agent 365 platform but the posting does not specify AI-related work.
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