Senior Software Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 15 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
The opportunity focuses on high-impact technology work that shapes communication solutions at a major tech firm, with attractive compensation.
- Salary: $119,800–$234,700/year
- Impactful technology projects in Microsoft 365
- Strong opportunities for career progression
- Significant experience required (4+ years)
Pros
- Involvement in foundational technology projects
- Attractive pay and benefits structure in a leading firm
- Possibility of career advancement in a global organization
Cons
- High performance requirements with operational pressure
- Eligibility limited to experienced candidates only
- Hybrid work model might not suit all preferences
Who it's for
Senior • Hybrid/office with some travel
Good fit
- Experienced software engineers focusing on real-time communication
- Tech enthusiasts looking for impactful work
- Candidates wanting to develop in a dynamic environment
Not recommended for
- Junior applicants without relevant experience
- Individuals preferring fully remote positions
- Candidates lacking diversified technical skills
Motivation fit
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Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Overview
We are the team behind all the messaging scenarios across multiple products, and develop one of the largest scale, business-critical distributed systems in Microsoft. Our services run in 25+ regions, and we process billions of messages a day, enabling hundreds of millions of active enterprise as well as consumer users. The micro services are highly scalable, highly available, and extremely performant in geo-redundant, multi-tenant systems and honor data sovereignty, privacy, security, and compliance.
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 of 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 building scalable, efficient, and reliable cloud services (systems design, architecture, and writing unit tests and integration/ end to end tests)
- 3+ years of experience with CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery or Deployment) pipelines, DevOps practices
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:
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years of 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 of 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 with large-scale, distributed systems and concurrent programming.
- Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.
- Systematic and structured approach to software design.
- Proficiency in Agile software delivery utilizing GitHub and/or Azure DevOps Service.
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 13, 2025.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop and operate features for large-scale distributed software services and solutions.
- Adhere to modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.
- Write clean and optimized code, improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
- Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
- Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with others to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.
- Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.
- Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
- Perform on-call maintenance of the service.
