Microsoft

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

Redmond, WA, US · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 18 hours ago
JavaScriptPythonJavaC++C#Code ReviewAPI DevelopmentMachine LearningCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingMentoring

About the role

  • You will serve as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for critical services, participating in on-call rotations, monitoring service health, resolving incidents, and driving long-term reliability improvements.
  • You will foster an inclusive, customer-focused engineering culture that values innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
  • Experience working with large-scale data platforms, telemetry, analytics, or automation systems.

Responsibilities

  • You will create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and maintain high-quality code with a focus on performance, reliability, security, maintainability, and operational excellence.
  • You will lead complex technical initiatives from concept through deployment, balancing customer needs, engineering quality, operational requirements, and security considerations.
  • You will identify dependencies, author technical design documentation, and develop execution plans that align teams around technical strategy, implementation, and delivery milestones.
  • You will act as a technical leader within the team by mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, leading design discussions, and promoting engineering best practices.
  • You will drive continuous improvements in service availability, observability, efficiency, performance, and operational consistency through modernization and automation investments.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive technical solutions across multiple teams and stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Strong understanding of software architecture, API design, and service reliability practices.

Benefits

  • You will leverage telemetry, analytics, and AI-driven insights to improve governance coverage, reduce operational risk, automate manual processes, and drive data-informed engineering decisions.

Company info

  • Embody our culture and values.

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