Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum: 4+ years. Preferred alternatives: 8+ years with a bachelor’s degree, or 6+ years with a master’s degree, or equivalent experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Designs, builds, deploys, and operates critical cloud services for Microsoft’s specialized and sovereign cloud platforms, with ownership of reliability, security, and scalability.
What you'll do
- Develops and improves service code, designs, and performance in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Owns services end to end, including deployment and on-call operations as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI).
- Identifies and resolves reliability, availability, observability, and performance issues, and guides other engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Must meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice to have
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or a master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
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
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