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Posted date: Oct 02, 2025
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations
Estimated salary: $188,900
Range: $119,800 - $258,000
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: 0 days / week in-office - remote
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
As organizations increasingly adopt cloud computing and migrate mission-critical workloads to Microsoft Azure, the cloud infrastructure and platform must meet growing demands for reliability, performance, and scalability. These evolving requirements present complex challenges that call for innovative solutions and resilient architecture.If you are interested in exploring these challenges and passionate about shaping the future of cloud technologies, this team offers a unique opportunity. Azure Core is the foundation of Microsoft’s cloud ecosystem, powering the infrastructure that supports global cloud computing. As a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure Core engineering team, you will collaborate with experienced colleagues to develop cutting-edge technologies, engage directly with customers worldwide, and contribute to the advancement of the cloud industry. This role also offers flexible work arrangements, including partial remote work.
The team fosters a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning. You will be encouraged to bring your ideas forward, work across disciplines, and grow your career in a supportive and dynamic environment.
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.
Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand challenges and identify opportunities from strategic customers’ perspectives, ensuring alignment with their business goals.
Define and plan technology requirements and solutions to address complex end-to-end business and engineering challenges through the lens of Customer Reliability Engineering (CRI).
Drive architecture planning, reviews, and development by helping customers define their solution architecture on the Microsoft Azure platform. Lead resolution of issues and gaps across Azure teams and proactively identify feature gaps to ensure customer success.
Partner with relevant stakeholders to determine user requirements across multiple scenarios, ensuring clarity and alignment throughout the development lifecycle.
Leverage subject-matter expertise across product features to coordinate project plans, release schedules, and work items across multiple teams, resolving customer-facing issues effectively.
Take ownership as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentor engineers across support, product, and solution teams, and manage on-call escalations to monitor and mitigate system degradation, downtime, or service interruptions.
Continuously seek new knowledge and adapt to emerging trends, technical solutions, and patterns that enhance availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance. Share insights with peers while promoting consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
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#, OR Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 1+ year(s) experience in technical leadership and architecture design for large-scale software systems, including:
Demonstrated ability to define and guide complex architectural solutions.Prior experience in coaching or leading technical teams.1+ year(s) experience in navigating ambiguity and driving results with a customer-centric mindset, including:
Proven ability to identify problem spaces and adapt quickly in evolving business environments.Commitment to continuous learning, curiosity, and skill development.Ability to collaborate with empathy and focus on delivering impactful outcomes.Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 1+ year(s) experience with cloud platform technologies, demonstrating expertise in one or more areas such as compute, networking, or storage on Microsoft Azure and/or other competitive cloud platforms.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
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 17, 2025.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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