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Posted date: Jan 09, 2026
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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
Work location type: 0 days / week in-office – remote
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
OverviewAre you interested in working for the team that owns and powers one of the most fundamental pieces of the Azure cloud? Are you looking for a new challenge to demonstrate your expertise in building systems operating at massive scale with extremely high availability requirements (100% SLA)? Then look no further than the Azure DNS team.
As a Senior Software Engineer in Azure DNS team, you’ll embark on a mission to build the world’s most reliable network and the cloud. The components that you will be working on span our scalable restful API layer built on top of geo-replicated data stores, authoritative and recursive DNS data planes, and health monitoring that helps build self-healing systems. You’ll own key projects and drive them end to end with good quality and reliability. This opportunity will allow you to innovate and solve complex scale and availability problems in running critical global services on an internet scale. You’ll provide technical leadership for the service. You’ll work in a team with other smart, passionate, and skilled engineers to deliver results as collaboration is one of the key pillars of our team culture.
Responsibilities
Independently use appropriate artificial intelligence (AI) tools and practices across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) in a disciplined manner, while taking responsibility for the content of their AI-generated requirements, design documents, code, and other assets, assisting other members of the team to do the same.Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to drive projects end to end from initial problem scoping to implementation and timely delivery.Design, implement, test, validate, and release software features to production stages with good quality, performance, security, and maintenance.Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for the service, monitor system uptime and alerts, develop, and follow playbook to restore service health, and identify innovative solutions for automated self-healing systems.Innovate and improve engineering excellence to enable growth at scale and operate efficiently.Provide technical, end-to-end leadership for projects, adapting to new trends, solutions, and advancements in DNS space.Mentor and coach other engineers to drive our collaborative and passionate team culture
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 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 ScienceOR related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR PythonOR 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 PythonOR equivalent experience.3+ years experience with Linux operating system3+ years experience with large scale distributed systems
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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