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Senior Software Engineer

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 23 Oct 2025

💰 $258,000/yr($119,800/yr – $258,000/yr)

About the role

The ES365 (Microsoft 365 Engineering Systems) team owns the tools that make up the end-to-end developer experience in Office and Substrate from source control and check-in experience to build, validation, and deployment automation, and we’re making big, bold changes – for the better! We’re making it easy to build and ship apps across platforms and endpoints, and we’re moving away from proprietary, internal-only tools onto “one Microsoft” investments, open source, and industry standard tools. This is an exciting time as we seek to re-invent productivity, leveraging the power of AI universally.  

We’re a growing team looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us. We have opportunities that span a wide range of front-end and back-end technologies including web application development, CLI development, back-end services, machine learning, managed code, native code, cross-platform, databases, distributed systems, cloud services, and more.  If you are excited about making engineers productive and happy by developing tools and services, we want you in ES365. Come be at the center of Microsoft 365 and join the team that is building the future of Engineering Systems at Microsoft! 

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

Work with engineers, product managers, designers, and partner teams to deliver a set of features with the right overall design and architecture. 
Own and deliver complete features across the development lifecycle, including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, shipping, and servicing. 
Write clean, well-thought-out code with an emphasis on quality, performance, simplicity, durability, scalability, and maintainability. 
Be committed to delivering the best experience for our customers. 
Help create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self and where we do our best work as a result.

Other

Embody our Culture and Values

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.
Experience in building highly available distributed systems at scale. 
3+ years experience in developing features with AI
3+ years experience in iOS and Android development

Preferred Qualifications:

Proven experience in design, coding, testing, problem solving, and debugging skills in any language. 
Experience working across disciplines, groups, and teams. 
Experience architecting and delivering distributed cloud services, Azure preferred.

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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or men