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Posted date: Jan 16, 2026
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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
OverviewMicrosoft’s Health and Life Sciences (HLS) team is dedicated to empowering healthcare organizations to achieve their goals and improve patient care. The HLS Platform team aims to create an efficient and connected healthcare ecosystem built on the Microsoft Cloud, empowering everyone across the healthcare journey to collaborate, communicate, and innovate together to provide better experiences for clinicians, staff, and patients.
Our team has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer on the HLS AI Data Platform team, pioneering next-generation Data & AI workloads and Copilots. Our mission is to provide robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure and data platforms to support and elevate Microsoft’s cutting-edge technologies in the healthcare and life sciences domain.
We are dedicated to empowering our customers to achieve more by delivering high-quality, reliable services through standardized architecture and infrastructure. Our diverse portfolio spans all facets of Microsoft's cloud ecosystem, including advanced projects in containerization, security, large-scale distributed systems, and more.
Our team is a supportive and inclusive organization that fosters continuous learning and development. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will leverage their service expertise and passion for technical excellence to make a substantial impact. We value collaboration, craftsmanship, and a growth mindset to deliver elegant solutions to complex problems.
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.
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Responsibilities
• We are looking for individuals who are passionate about working across all aspects of high-performance, multi-tenant services.
• Develops maintainable, extensible code using current programming languages and frameworks; writes unit tests and contributes to test automation.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to clarify requirements, integrates feedback from multiple sources, and iterates on designs and implementations.
• Contributes to design documents and architecture proposals with guidance; reuses code and follows established patterns and style guidelines.
• Tests and debugs features using logs, telemetry, and diagnostics; documents deployment procedures and supports safe rollouts.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns.
• Embody our culture and values.
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, Go, TypeScript, or Python
o OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) experience building or operating distributed systems or cloud services in production environments.
The ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements is 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.
Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship- based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United states federal, state, and/or local(or applicable country) United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport.
Preferred Qualifications
• 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, GO or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience building or operating distributed systems or cloud services in production environments.
• 3+ years experience with SQL or NoSQL database being utilized in application development.
• Experience working with AI technologies from a technical standpoint (e.g., integrating AI services, using developer copilots).
• Knowledge of Kubernetes [RG1.1][DB1.2][RG1.3][NM1.4]application development and containerization.
• Experience developing on cloud platforms, including monitoring performance and telemetry to drive continuous improvements.
• Understanding of modern software and systems architectures, including load-balancing, queueing, caching, distributed systems failure modes, and microservices.
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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