Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft is reimagining the way Sovereign Clouds are engineered, maintained, and operated. This environment is fast paced where innovation, collaboration, and engineering excellence are core to our culture. We are looking for people with solid engineering backgrounds, strong ownership mentalities, and coming from different industries. Your diverse perspectives with a passion to raise the bar will set you up for success. Our culture has made our team a family where we work full stack to solve complex and ambiguous problems continually learning from each other.

Our team's mission is to grow the business by building software that keeps our enterprise promises of high availability, resiliency, data management, security, and compliance across the entire suite of Azure services, with a special focus on government clouds. We leverage data to derive insights and drive new market opportunities for global expansion across new geographies & regions and industries in public & private sectors.

We are looking for talented and motivated software engineering leaders that are interested in making their mark in Azure and join a team with immense growth opportunities

- Build deep domain expertise on global infrastructure deployment technology and processes
- Architect, design, and implement V1 cloud services in collaboration with teammates.
- Design services with a strong focus on high availability and scalability, robustness, and observability.
- Grow and mentor other developers.
- Build software prototypes and conduct experiments to evaluate alternative architectures.

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.
• 4+ years of experience designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend systems, including distributed systems and microservices, with a focus on seamless data integration.
• 3+ years of experience with cloud computing platforms to build and deploy scalable, resilient backend services.

Other Requirements:

This position requires verification of citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, and as a condition of employment, the successful candidate's citizenship will be verified with a valid passport.

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

• 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.
• 6+ years of software engineering experience building and releasing web services
• Show experience in driving large strategic and complex or ambiguous projects that span organizations.
• Strong design, implementation, and testing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to write reliable, low defect, unit tested code.
• Ability to work and communicate effectively across disciplines and teams.
• Ability to motivate, mentor, and develop other engineers and provide technical leadership.
• Passion for delivering customer impact and value.

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.