Senior Software Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Exceptional value due to working on pivotal cloud infrastructure, involvement in high-stakes projects, and significant compensation potential, especially within the software engineering field.
- Outstanding salary potential and benefits
- Key role in shaping Azure's infrastructure
- Access to modern technologies and practices
Pros
- Opportunity to shape key infrastructure within Azure
- Competitive salary range and benefits
- Potential to work with cutting-edge technology
Cons
- High technical requirements may limit applicant pool
- Intense workplace dynamics with acute deadlines
- Prolonged focus on project development may lead to burnout
Who it's for
Mid-Level to Senior • Hybrid with specific in-office requirements
Good fit
- Senior engineers with cloud development experience
- Candidates passionate about scalable technology solutions
- Professionals eager to drive results in tech projects
Not recommended for
- Newcomers without software engineering skills
- Individuals searching for fully remote work
- Those who prefer relaxed, predictable job roles
Motivation fit
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Senior Software Engineer
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Overview
As a Senior Software Engineer on the IC3 Standardization Team, you will work on systems that allow our partner teams across IC3 to observe and monitor behaviour of their services, rapidly detect incidents and abnormalities, all with a goal of keeping mission critical software running as smoothly as possible, while reducing engineering toil necessary to ensure this vision. You will work on monitoring and observability tooling for modern dotnet services, designing, implementing and driving adoption for SDKs that are used across the entire IC3 organization. You will become a domain expert in observability-as-code, telemetry and logging systems, and lean into cutting edge AI tooling to accelerate adoption of best practices.
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.
- 4+ years of web services experience in either .NET, Java, Django or similar technologies.
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 8+ 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 6+ 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 web services experience in either .NET, Java, Django or similar technologies.
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $114,400 - CAD $203,900 per year.
Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 9th, 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.
- Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
- Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor product feature for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and drives best practices to improve the reliability, observability, and performance of the product.
- 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.
