Responsibilities
- Architects complex products end to end by creating and iterating on design documents, evaluating trade-offs, and ensuring performance, scalability, and resiliency requirements are met.
- Collaborates across teams to resolve dependency and ownership conflicts.
- Partners with internal stakeholders to determine customer and user requirements for scenarios and translates them into technical direction.
- Improves artificial intelligence (AI) tools and practices across the software development lifecycle, takes ownership of AI-generated assets, and experiments to improve capabilities.
- Leads by example in code quality by conducting timely, insightful code reviews, upholding standards, security, and compliance, and mentoring engineers using automated analysis tools integrated into the build process.
- Designs and owns test strategies that prevent regression, incorporate security testing, and cover edge and negative cases.
- Builds testable code from the start and identifies hard-to-test areas for future rearchitecture.
- Drives engineering excellence through automation, zero-touch deployment goals, security-as-code principles, threat modeling, and compliance evidence, and advocates new industry trends, tools, and regulations to peers.
- Plans and delivers features with full lifecycle ownership by breaking work into tracked tasks, managing feature flighting and rollback plans, and automating deployments following safe-change practices.
- Owns live-site reliability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) by integrating telemetry and observability, responding to incidents within service-level agreements, driving postmortems and root-cause fixes, and improving troubleshooting guides and on-call practices.
Qualifications
Additional 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 8+ years 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
TypeScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- Communicates clearly and respectfully in both written and verbal formats, including emails, proposals, and reports, ensuring all parties are heard, understood, and aligned toward shared goals.
- Demonstrates solid English language proficiency and oral communication skills to effectively give instructions, receive feedback, and collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Fosters collaborative innovation by engaging diverse internal and external stakeholders in the creation and development of novel products, processes, and research.
- Negotiates mutually satisfying outcomes by actively listening to others' objectives, representing the organization's interests, and finding common ground.
- Designs and architects scalable products, services, and systems by applying sound engineering and design principles across the full development lifecycle.
- Engineers robust, performant software solutions grounded in computer science fundamentals, including distributed systems, algorithm design, and scalable application architecture.
- Enhances project and product execution by integrating planning, quality assurance, and lifecycle management practices to keep delivery aligned with strategic goals.
- Applies a data-driven approach to problem-solving by extracting actionable insights from data and making informed, strategic decisions within the broader organizational context.
Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience)
- Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud background check and related security screening (pass upon hire/transfer and every two years)
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience (or equivalent)
- Experience with TypeScript or Python (or equivalent experience)
- Designing and architecting scalable distributed systems, performant services, and resilient software
- Experience with telemetry, observability, live-site reliability, and on-call/D R I responsibilities
- Familiarity with AI tools/practices across the software development lifecycle and ownership of AI-generated assets
- Experience with security-as-code, threat modeling, compliance, and automated testing strategies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience collaborating across diverse stakeholders
Microsoft Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Microsoft and has not been reviewed or approved by Microsoft.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is presented as broadly competitive overall, with clear role/level/location variation and an emphasis on using posted ranges and band information for apples-to-apples comparisons.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits are described as a standout, highlighted by a strong 401(k) match structure and immediate vesting, plus additional plan features for tax-advantaged saving.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented benefits are portrayed as a meaningful strength, with substantial paid parental leave and added supports like back-up care and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
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