Microsoft Software Engineer

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Posted date: Feb 26, 2026

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Category: Software Engineering

Location: Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations

Estimated salary: $132,300
Range: $84,200 - $180,400

Employment type: Full-Time

Work location type: 0 days / week in-office – remote

Role: Individual Contributor


Description

Overview

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 Azure, we are redefining the nature of software in the network by writing the software that runs on the switches and building massive distributed systems to control Microsoft’s Cloud Datacenters.

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) team. The SONiC team owns all the software that is running on the switches and routers. We have lots of interesting problems to solve, such as supporting new generation switches ranging from 100G/400G/800G to 1.6T. The team is also building a vibrant open-source community for the switch software, which is adopted by various other cloud providers.

Responsibilities

Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).Learns to review code and helps to review code of others to ensure it meets team standards.Supports the identification of dependencies, and their incorporation into the development of design documents for a product feature with oversight. Learns and helps to actively identify other teams and technologies to leverage, how they interact, and where their own system or team can support others. Learns about downstream interactions between systems.Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and collaborates with 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 that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Rust, or Python,OR 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 2+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Rust, OR Python. Experience in developing and debugging in Linux-based systems software using C/C++, Python or Rust. 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#, Rust or Python,OR equivalent experience.#azurecorejobs #IC2SWE #EiP

Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 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 $109,000 - $180,400 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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