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The Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Cloud & AI organization. Cloud security landscape is evolving rapidly. You will work in a fast-paced environment with frameworks such as Microsoft Synapse and Microsoft Service Fabric. You will work closely with PMs to translate their asks into scalable yet easy to maintain services. You will collaborate with your peers to design and build highly available services, from alpha/preview releases to production grade. A successful candidate will be self-motivated and a fast learner with good collaboration skills. 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.

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

+ Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and high-performance software solutions using Java, C#, or C++.Architect and implement distributed systems that handle large volumes of data efficiently and reliably.

+ Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features and enhancements.

+ Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of mission-critical applications in production environments.

+ Apply best practices in software engineering, including code reviews, testing, and continuous integration and deployment.

+ Contribute to technical discussions and help drive architectural decisions to support long-term scalability and maintainability.

+ Participate in incident response and root cause analysis to improve system resilience and reduce operational risk

+ Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required / 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 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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

+ 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 Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

+ or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

+ Experience with Data Handling at scale

+ Experience building and operating cloud-based mission critical software

+ Experience with Kubernetes/AWS/GCP/Azure is a big plus

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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 17, 2025.

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