Job Details
Posted date: Jan 21, 2026
Category: Software Engineering
Location: WA, Redmond
Estimated salary: $188,900
Range: $119,800 - $258,000
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: 3 days / week in-office
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
OverviewThe HR Employee Experience team builds, runs, and continuously improves the missioncritical products and services that power Microsoft’s internal workforce. We turn bold ideas into transformational solutions that make Microsoft teams work smarter, faster, and more securely—every single day.
A core pillar of our mission is AIenabled empowerment: we embed intelligent automation, largelanguagemodeldriven assistants, and predictive analytics into every product to surface the right information at the right time, streamline routine tasks, and uncover insights that help employees thrive.
Our engineers bring deep technical strength, business acumen, and firsthand experience at massive scale. We are technology leaders, digitaltransformation agents, and passionate customer advocates who love solving realworld problems for both Microsoft and our external partners.
Why join us?
Shape the future of work – Design and ship cloudnative services that directly elevate employee productivity and experience.
Work with cuttingedge tech – Leverage SAP BTP, Azure, Kyma/Kubernetes, AI/ML, DevOps pipelines, and modern observability tools at massive scale.
Drive impact fast – Operate in an agile cadence, delivering highquality, customerfocused value on a predictable schedule.
Grow your career – Access mentorship, continuouslearning programs, and clear pathways to technical leadership or product ownership.
Be part of a diverse, inclusive community – Collaborate with brilliant engineers from many backgrounds who take pride in delivering results together.
As a Senior Software Engineer (SAP Technologies), you will design, code, test, deploy, and support missioncritical features for our business applications, building scalable software and services that leverage cuttingedge technologies such as AI, SAP BTP / Azure cloud platforms, and security solutions. You’ll champion quality through testdriven development, automated testing, and robust CI/CD pipelines, while instrumenting telemetry to give realtime visibility, accelerate troubleshooting, and continuously improve reliability. Working closely with peers across multiple teams, you’ll create flexible, highperformance components that enable the next generation of business services, directly impacting Microsoft’s core workloads.
This position is based at the Redmond campus with 3 days per week work in the office and 2 days per week work from home. Relocation assistance is available.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
Code Development & Reviews
Review product and test code/config for quality, coverage, and adherence to team standards
Coach peer engineers through constructive code/config review feedback
Ensure code meets diagnosability, reliability, testability, and maintainability standards
Apply coding patterns, security best practices, and compliance requirements
Leverage automated source code analysis tools in the build process
Produce extensible, well-tested, secure, and performant code
Use debugging tools, logs, and telemetry to proactively verify assumptions
Conduct incident retrospectives and implement preventive measures
Design & Architecture
Create and own test strategies ensuring solution quality and regression prevention
Design and maintain testable code/config; identify untestable sections for re-architecture
Lead architecture discussions and develop complex design specifications
Identify dependencies and collaborate across teams to resolve conflicts
Ensure designs meet performance, scalability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and COGS requirements
Uphold security, privacy, and compliance standards in all designs
Leverage AI tools for test automation
Engineering Excellence
Apply secure design principles and best practices for new code/config development
Drive automation in production and deployment, targeting zero-touch deployment
Maintain deep understanding of security, privacy, accessibility, and compliance requirements
Stay current with industry trends; conduct learning sessions on engineering principles
Build or enhance developer tools for faster, more effective software engineering
Establish security-as-code practices with deployment gates and vulnerability scanners
Implementation & Delivery
Partner with stakeholders to drive project and release plans
Break down work into manageable tasks; guide estimation and escalate delays
Ensure code is properly flighted for quick incident mitigation
Drive experimentation using feature flags and internal infrastructure
Follow safe deployment practices; monitor dependencies and enact rollback plans when needed
Build deployment infrastructure supporting production-like testing
Reliability & Supportability
Integrate logging and telemetry for performance, reliability, and security monitoring
Create dashboards and notifications for system health and issue identification
Serve as DRI; monitor systems on-call and restore service within SLA
Drive incident volume reduction through broad resolutions
Write incident postmortems and improve troubleshooting guides
Add comprehensive observability and monitoring to services
User Requirements
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to define customer requirements
Incorporate customer insights into designs and fixes
Advocate for security, privacy, accessibility, and globalization needs
Ensure continuous feedback loops measuring customer value and solution performance
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
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 PythonOR equivalent experience.Preferred Qualifications
Experience in developing SAP SuccessFactors HXM suite or SAP HCM solutions. Experience in design, developing and implementing module Employee Central, Onboarding and Recruiting which meets the business requirements of the organization.Experience in developing Integration using SAP Integration suite and / or Supporting Integration developers using SuccessFactors OData API’s.Foundational knowledge of Business Rules, workflows and Provisioning configurations. Experience on performance tuning, optimize Business rules and improve responsiveness of the application.Experience with automated test frameworks to ensure functionality, compatibility and performance.Experience working in Agile methodology (Scrum/Kanban/etc.)Experience in developing other SF modules like Compensations, Benefits, Succession Planning and LMS.Experience in developing Azure services with SAP SuccessFactors and SAP BTP.Experience in developing SAP BTP. Solutions like SAP Build Work zone, Joule and AI Core. Experience in developing SAP Business Data cloud.
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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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