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Posted date: Dec 03, 2025
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
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
OverviewDo you want to be part of a team that delivers innovative AI features across flagship products? Does the idea of joining a fast-paced, high-visibility, and diverse team in a highly competitive market excite you? If so, you’ll thrive as a Senior Software Engineer on our Office for the Web team, where you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of intelligent cloud services. In this position, you’ll architect, design, and launch cutting-edge systems that drive resilience for massive-scale platforms - empowering automatic cloud infrastructure provisioning, diagnostics, correlations and game-changing automated root cause analysis for complex incidents and mitigations.
You’ll work alongside top-tier engineers in an energetic environment where learning never stops and boundaries are always being pushed. Together, you’ll harness the power of AI to solve real-world challenges, building high-performance, secure, and resilient platforms that delight over a billion users worldwide. If you’re passionate about engineering excellence and ready to help shape the next generation of digital experiences, we want to hear from you!
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
Be a technical leader for engineers, owning project efforts and being accountable end-to-end. Work closely with leadership to identify necessary engineering investments, define clear requirements, scope solutions, estimate effort, and schedule deliverables. Lead initiatives to automate infrastructure provisioning across clouds and operationalize at scale by reducing incident volume, analyzing incidents globally, and delivering broad resolutions. Apply sound engineering principles to establish robust, maintainable architectures and designs. Champion and drive the adoption of high-quality coding standards and best practices.
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.2+ years’ experience in applying machine learning techniques and drive end-to-end AI product development. Has an AI-first approach.1+ years working with Large Language Models. Grounded in growth mindset, and advocate for diversity and inclusion.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: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 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 equivalent experience.Leadership skills to influence others, with the ability to understand team dynamics, retain, attract, and develop team members. Customer obsessed and passionate about product impact.Experience with Prompt optimizations, Data Mining with language models, Agentic systems. Solid cross team collaboration skills.
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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