Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, and more openness in a cloud-enabled world. The Business & Industry Copilots group is a rapidly growing organization that is responsible for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 suite of products, Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, AI Builder, Microsoft Industry Solution and more. Microsoft is considered one of the leaders in Software as a Service in the world of business applications and this organization is at the heart of how business applications are designed and delivered.
We are looking for a
Senior Software Engineer to join our team!
This is an incredible time to be part of our team and contribute to a highly strategic initiative for Microsoft. Power Platform brings together multiple products designed to empower customers in their digital transformation journey. In this role, you’ll help build scalable, reliable, secure, and compliant AI infrastructure that powers every product across Power Platform. You’ll work alongside a passionate team of engineers who thrive on solving complex challenges at scale while delivering exceptional quality. If you’re excited about driving innovation and shaping the future of AI-powered solutions, we’d love to have you on board.
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.
Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate cloud-scale, multi-tenant infrastructure platforms with a strong focus on reliability, security, scalability, and operational excellence.
Lead the design and implementation of Kubernetes-based infrastructure, including cluster architecture, networking, storage, and workload isolation strategies.
Build and evolve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions (e.g., ARM, Bicep, Terraform, Helm) to enable repeatable, auditable, and automated infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management.
Apply systems thinking to design for failure domains, including regional isolation, availability zone strategies, dependency management, and blast-radius reduction.
Drive resiliency and reliability improvements through proactive design reviews, fault modeling, chaos testing, and post-incident learning.
Build tooling and automation to detect, diagnose, and self-heal infrastructure and platform issues, enabling customers and support teams to self-resolve problems.
Identify recurring operational issues and escalation patterns, and drive engineering solutions such as self-healing mechanisms, automation, guardrails, and platform abstractions.
Partner closely with product, SRE, and Azure platform teams to define regional deployment strategies, capacity planning, and safe rollout patterns.
Contribute to product and platform improvements by filing impactful bugs, proposing design changes, and shipping fixes to production to prevent customer impact.
Communicate complex technical issues and recommendations clearly and concisely, influencing cross-team decisions and driving measurable business outcomes.
Embody Microsoft’s culture and values, contributing to a collaborative, inclusive, and growth-oriented engineering environment.
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.
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.
- 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 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 equivalent experience.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms in production environments.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as ARM, Bicep, Terraform, or similar.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts, including failure domains, consistency, availability, and fault tolerance.
- Experience designing for high availability, regional resiliency, and disaster recovery in cloud environments.
- Familiarity with cloud networking, storage, and security fundamentals, including identity, access control, and isolation boundaries.
- Experience operating large-scale services with an emphasis on reliability engineering, incident response, and postmortem-driven improvements.
- Ability to reason about blast radius, dependency management, and safe rollout strategies in complex systems.
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 $160,200 - $261,000 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
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 a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.
- Pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes or container orchestration platforms.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as ARM, Bicep, Terraform, or similar.
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts, including failure domains, consistency, availability, and fault tolerance.
- Experience designing high availability, regional resiliency, and disaster recovery in cloud environments.
- Familiarity with cloud networking, storage, security fundamentals, identity, access control, and isolation boundaries.
- Experience operating large-scale services with reliability engineering, incident response, and postmortem-driven improvements.
- Ability to reason about blast radius, dependency management, and safe rollout strategies in complex systems.
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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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with preventive care coverage, vision options, and annual out-of-pocket limits. Feedback suggests medical, mental-health, and disability support are a major strength of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Family support is expansive, including parental leave, family caregiver leave, child-care assistance, family concierge services, fertility options, and college-advising support for eligible employees. Feedback suggests these benefits meaningfully ease caregiving and family planning demands.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing resources include counseling and employee-assistance services, wellness reimbursements, product discounts, and charitable-matching programs. Feedback suggests these extras complement core benefits and support day-to-day quality of life.
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