Senior Software Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 14 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Strong opportunity with competitive salary and focus on cutting-edge cloud infrastructure projects.
- Salary range: $119,800 - $234,700/year
- Direct impact on Azure cloud infrastructure
- Collaborative work environment with flexible options
- Challenging projects may require significant experience
Pros
- Competitive salary range ($119,800 - $234,700/year)
- Work on significant cloud infrastructure for Azure
- Flexible remote work options available
Cons
- Challenging expectations surrounding production service environments
- Possible pressure due to high-stakes project deadlines
- Preference for candidates with extensive cloud experience
Who it's for
Mid / Senior • Fully remote
Good fit
- Mid to senior level software engineers with cloud experience
- Individuals passionate about high-performance systems
- Tech enthusiasts interested in advancing security practices
Not recommended for
- Recent graduates or entry-level developers
- Candidates desiring non-technical roles
- Those uncomfortable in high-stress situations
Motivation fit
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Senior Software Engineer
Multiple Locations, United States
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Overview
Are you interested in building secure, high-performance cloud infrastructure that powers millions of workloads worldwide? As a Software Engineer on the Azure Core Compute Node Services team, you will design and deliver features that run at hyperscale, advancing reliability, elasticity, and security for one of the world’s largest cloud platforms.
You will work on cutting-edge systems that evolve the host operating system, leverage hardware offloads, and enable disaggregated compute. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to:
- Accelerate your career growth by tackling complex engineering challenges at global scale.
- Deepen your expertise in distributed systems, performance optimization, and cloud security.
- bn Collaborate across organizations, driving technical innovation and influencing future Azure architecture.
This opportunity is designed for engineers who thrive on impact, continuous learning, and collaboration. Flexible work options are available, including partial work-from-home arrangements.
At Microsoft, our mission is empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. We embrace a growth mindset, innovate for others, and collaborate to realize our goals. Our culture is built on respect, integrity, and accountability, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone thrives.
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+ year(s) of experience working in high-stakes production service environments, including live-site operations.
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.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale distributed systems, services, or platforms.
- Proficiency in Rust and/or C++ for systems-level programming.
- Demonstrable technical leadership experience, with demonstrable results including collaborating with external stakeholders.
- 1+ year(s) of troubleshooting and debugging skills in distributed or cloud systems.
- 1+ year(s) proficency for learning and growing in Azure core compute and cloud security domains.
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 and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.
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Responsibilities
- Collaborate with stakeholders to determine requirements and conceptualize high-level designs for features and scenarios.
- Drive identification of dependencies and develop design documents for Azure Core Compute services.
- Create, implement, debug, refactor, and optimize code to improve maintainability, performance, and security.
- Partner with project managers and cross-functional stakeholders to define project and release plans, leveraging your expertise in distributed systems and service fundamentals.
- Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), contributing to on-call rotations, monitoring service health, and restoring services during incidents.
- Proactively learn new technologies, adapting to evolving technical patterns to improve availability, reliability, observability, and performance at scale.
- Serve as a technical contributor in building security-first features, influencing architecture and implementation across Azure Compute Node Services.
