Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience; additionally states 6+ years’ backend service development and 2+ years’ batch or streaming data processing experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Builds and operates large-scale data analytics pipelines and insight systems for Bing and MSN, supporting real-time insights, experimentation, and bot protection.
What you'll do
- Design and own data-processing architecture, pipelines, dashboards, and metrics using Azure and open-source technologies.
- Build scalable, fault-tolerant datasets and pipelines; implement anomaly detection and data quality checks while optimizing performance and reliability.
- Collaborate with data scientists and product managers, address data governance and compliance, and apply AI in coding, testing, data processing, and validation.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in a listed language, or equivalent experience.
- 6+ years’ experience in backend service development and 2+ years’ experience in batch or streaming data processing at PiB scale.
- Domain expertise in Spark or Flink for daily PiB-level data processing.
- Experience optimizing data pipeline performance and using AI in data processing and validation.
Nice to have
- Data compliance or governance experience.
- Fluency in verbal and written English communication.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Spark, Flink, Kafka, EventHub, HDFS, Azure blob, Azure, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
AI focus
Use AI in coding, testing, data processing, and data validation.
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