Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable full-stack applications and data services for AI-enabled commercial scenarios.
• Develop secure APIs, user experiences, data pipelines, and distributed services.
• Partner with product managers, data scientists, and engineering teams to deliver reliable technical solutions.
• Apply software engineering practices across architecture, coding, testing, deployment, observability, performance, privacy, and security.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools and automation to improve productivity, quality, and delivery speed.
• Troubleshoot production issues, improve service reliability, and contribute to operational excellence.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture and design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
• Coding experience in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Experience designing, building, testing, and operating production software or data systems.
• Experience with data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, APIs, and cloud services.
• Experience building full-stack applications and large-scale data pipelines on Azure or a comparable cloud platform.
• Experience with relational and non-relational data stores, data modeling, batch and streaming processing, and service integration.
• Experience applying AI or agentic capabilities in production solutions and using AI-assisted development tools.
• Experience with technical leadership, architecture and design reviews, engineering standards, mentoring, and influencing without direct authority.
• Ability to collaborate across product, data science, engineering, privacy, security, and partner teams and communicate technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and drive work toward measurable outcomes.

Benefits

• Base pay is provided for U.S. locations, with separate ranges for the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
• The role may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the posting open for at least 5 days.
• Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and provides accommodations during the application process.