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Posted date: Dec 09, 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
OverviewAre you a customer-obsessed, AI-curious problem-solver who thrives in an inclusive, collaborative global team? Join Engineering Operations (EngOps) – the organization driving operational excellence across the Microsoft Cloud to strengthen quality, reliability, security, and customer trust. As part of EngOps, you’ll design solutions that prevent issues before they happen, embed AI-powered automation, and turn signals into actions that deliver measurable customer impact. Our culture of empowerment, inclusion, and growth mindset defines how we work. The EngOps PRIMO organization within EngOps is responsible for building great products to enable Customer Success at scale. This Software Engineer I position is targeted for someone who is: thrilled about online services, cloud computing, and user experience, loves to work in an agile development team, embraces and solves new technological challenges, deeply passionate about building effective software and continuously improving the development process, independent thinker and working collaboratively in a team environment. As part of this role, you will collaborate closely with multiple teams to deliver key customer solutions and the technology to support them. You will have ample opportunities to participate in all stages of our engineering lifecycle - from initial research and discovery, quick iteration on promising concepts, solution prototyping, and development, all the way through successful service rollout and Live Site support. Every day, our customers stake their business and reputation on our cloud. You can help #EngOps provide our customers with the world-class cloud services they need to succeed. 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.In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
Responsibilities
Leads by example within the team to produce extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant code that adheres to design specifications. Optimize, debug, and refactor code to improve performance and maintainability, and effectiveness.Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) in monitoring system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions for simple problems, and recommends actions to restore system/product/service by following the playbookApply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practicesIdentifies dependencies and incorporates them into the development of design documents for a product, application, service or platform. Actively identify other teams and technologies to leverage, how they interact, and where their own system or team can support others. Leads discussions for product/service architecture and develop complex design specifications.Review code to assure compliance to quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution area.Mentor junior engineers
Qualifications
Minimum 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 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 6+ year(s) 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 with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python,OR equivalent experience.Experience or working knowledge of JavaScript/Node.js/React or another similar web stackExperience with distributed systems and a cloud technology stack such as Azure or AWSWorking knowledge of agile software development methodologies and tools that enable these, such as GitHub, Azure DevOps, etc.#PRIMOjobs  and #EngOps #PRIMOjobs #EngOps
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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