Senior Software Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Strategic position in a well-known cloud service company offering significant responsibilities and a competitive salary.
- Salary range: $119,800–$234,700/year
- Role focuses on enhancing Azure user interface solutions
- Collaboration and independent work opportunities available
- Significant technical experience required
Pros
- Salary range: $119,800–$234,700/year
- Focus on driving user experience enhancements in Azure Portal
- Strong emphasis on collaborative work and project ownership
Cons
- Might involve on-call and high intensity work
- Requires intersection of technical skills and teamwork
- Potentially steep competition for the position
Who it's for
Senior Level • Remote (0 days in-office)
Good fit
- Senior engineers in software development
- Individuals passionate about cloud technologies
- Professionals who thrive in dynamic remote environments
Not recommended for
- Entry-level candidates without relevant experience
- Those preferring set in-office routines
- Individuals unsure about cloud platforms
Motivation fit
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Senior Software Engineer
Multiple Locations, United States
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Overview
The Azure Portal empowers millions of developers and IT professionals worldwide to deploy, manage, and monitor their cloud applications with ease. As part of the Azure Portal team, you will create cutting-edge solutions that make a direct impact on how businesses run their cloud infrastructure. Your work will shape the user experience for Azure’s global customer base, helping drive innovation in the cloud.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Azure Portal team, you will play a key role in designing and building features that extend the functionality of our platform. You will collaborate closely with partner teams, contributing to frameworks and SDKs used across hundreds of critical Azure services. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, deepen your technical expertise, hone your ability to iterate quickly in a fast-paced environment, and become adept at delivering next-gen cloud-based user interfaces.
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.
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, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 1+ years experience with front end web development.
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 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript or Python
- OR Master'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.
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 November 17, 2025.
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Responsibilities
- Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
- Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
- Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
- 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 that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
