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Senior Software Development Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Redmond, WAJob$120–235K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$120–235K/yr
Location
Redmond, WA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Microsoft Cloud Background Check

Job overview

Microsoft’s Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering team builds infrastructure and foundational technologies for Azure and other online services. The Senior Software Development Engineer will build and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure systems, managing and monitoring hardware across hyperscale environments. The role focuses on reliability, availability, performance, data science, and AI-enabled fleet management, while providing technical leadership and improving developer productivity.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Software EngineeringCC++C#JavaJavaScriptPythonData AnalysisReportingData ScienceBusiness IntelligenceBusiness AnalysisFinancial Analysis

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science or Related4+ Years Technical Engineering ExperienceEquivalent ExperienceMicrosoft Cloud Background CheckMaster's in Listed Fields or Equivalent2+ Years Data Analysis or Related ExperienceBachelor's in Listed Fields or Equivalent4+ Years Data Analysis or Related Experience

Full job description

Overview

Microsoft Silicon, Cloud Hardware, and Infrastructure Engineering (SCHIE) is the team behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. SCHIE delivers the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform globally with our server and data center infrastructure, security and compliance, operations, globalization, and manageability solutions. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering trusted experiences to customers and partners worldwide and we are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to help achieve that mission.

The team partners across hardware, firmware, software, and operations to improve cloud infrastructure availability and enable next-generation systems. Microsoft also contributes to industry efforts such as Project Olympus and the Open Compute Project to accelerate open hardware innovation.

We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to build and operate large-scale cloud infrastructure systems that power Azure. In this role, you will work on a full stack that manages and monitors cloud hardware across hyperscale environments, driving improvements in reliability, availability, and performance by leveraging data science coupled with cutting edge AI capabilities to improve efficiency as we scale innovative hardware solutions that power Azure. From driving integration of the latest AI developer tools to building new AI applications to streamline fleet management and quality improvement, this role is about innovation at scale as we strive to make our world-class infrastructure even better.

This hands-on role will provide technical leadership across the organization and on a growing team tasked with accelerating our productivity and processes so that every developer can achieve more. To be successful in this role you must have a great track record of delivering quality results to customers, an engineering mindset, an innate aptitude for agility, and technical excellence in software engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Develop tooling to enhance our working knowledge of control plane systems, services and tools leveraging existing and new data sources. Using data science to provide key business insights.

  • Develop and enhance device telemetry, health monitoring, hardware health signal processing, and automated remediation workflows.

  • Drive live-site excellence through monitoring, debugging, root cause analysis, repair loops, and continuous service reliability improvements.

  • Collaborate with hardware, firmware, platform, and partner teams to deliver end-to-end solutions across hardware-software boundaries.

  • Translate customer and production feedback into feature enhancements, bug fixes, reliability improvements, and supportability investments.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's Degree in Mathematics, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Economics or related field AND 2+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, data science, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis OR Bachelor's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Data Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Economics or related field AND 4+ years experience in data analysis and reporting, data science, business intelligence, or business and financial analysis OR equivalent experience.

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. (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html)

How this job compares

Set against the 7,944 open Software Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 30, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$120–235K/yr
  • Washington median$168–254K/yr373 salary ranges
  • US median$147–245K/yr5,954 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $177K, is 16% below the Washington median midpoint ($210K) — in the middle half of Software Engineering salary ranges in Washington.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 450 open Software Engineering jobs in Washington and 7,944 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Washington
Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — less than three in four Software Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 6,138 postings).
Education
2,188 of the 7,944 open Software Engineering jobs (28%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 30, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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