Senior Software Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value due to significant tech project involvement within Microsoft, competitive salary, and opportunities for skill enhancement.
- Salary range: $119,800–$234,700/year
- Engagement with projects in communication technologies
- Strong growth potential within Microsoft
- Significant experience (4+ years) required
Pros
- Engagement with high-impact projects in communication technologies
- Competitive salary range with comprehensive benefits
- Work in a globally recognized tech company
Cons
- High expectations and fast-paced work setting
- Selective hiring process favoring more experienced candidates
- Hybrid work model may limit flexibility
Who it's for
Senior • Hybrid/office with possible travel
Good fit
- Senior software engineers focused on scalable systems
- Professionals passionate about communications technology
- Candidates desiring impactful contributions to large projects
Not recommended for
- Entry-level candidates without relevant practical experience
- Professionals seeking entirely remote roles
- Individuals with limited programming knowledge
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.
