Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
$120K–$304K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Nov 3, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years technical engineering experience; 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
Build customer-facing AI deployment and operations capabilities that assess release risk, evaluate applications and agents, detect production issues, and support safe recovery at enterprise scale.
What you'll do
- Design, build, test, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, tools, and agentic evaluation systems.
- Own features from design through production, including release-risk assessment, trust scoring, release gates, and service reliability.
- Partner across teams, participate in incident response and root-cause analysis, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice to have
- Master's Degree and 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with Power Platform or Microsoft 365 enterprise development; understanding of modern AI technologies or experience building agentic systems.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary); USD $142,800 - $274,800 per year (base salary); USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Power Platform, Microsoft 365
AI focus
Build AI evaluation and agentic test systems for release readiness, production issue detection, and safe recovery; work with generative AI, foundation models, and multi-agent systems.
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