Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of data understanding, collaborating with cross-functional teams to tackle complex challenges, and building solutions that have a direct, meaningful impact on our products and business growth.

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 and develop scalable software solutions to improve entity recognition, conflation, linking, classification, and relationships within complex datasets, leveraging AI and machine learning techniques.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define requirements, identify challenges, and build end-to-end solutions that drive business value.
• Lead the architecture and implementation of key features, ensuring that systems are robust, efficient, and capable of handling large-scale data in real-time.
• Mentor and guide engineers, providing technical leadership and fostering a collaborative environment to ensure the team’s continued growth and success.
• Continuously optimize and enhance existing systems, identifying opportunities for performance improvements and applying best practices in software engineering and data processing.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends in AI, machine learning, and data engineering, bringing new ideas and innovative solutions to the team to keep our technologies at the cutting edge.

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 with software engineering best practices
• Experience with machine learning and AI techniques, particularly in natural language processing (NLP), entity recognition, or other forms of data classification and analysis.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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 equivalent experience.
• Communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team and across different departments.
• Experience in mentoring, providing technical guidance, and driving project success in a senior capacity.
• Problem-solving skills and the ability to tackle complex, ambiguous challenges with innovative solutions.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 29, 2025.

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 mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran st