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Senior Software Engineer

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 27 Oct 2025

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

About the role

Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud (IC3) powers billions of real-time customer conversations across Microsoft’s first party (Teams, Skype, Azure Communication Servies), and second party (Dynamics) solutions. IC3 enables reliable and high-quality audio/video calling, meeting, and messaging services that work every time from anywhere seamlessly across all customer touchpoints. IC3’s mission is to make conversations on M365 platforms more intelligent in real-time empowering best-in-class productivity tools for the modern workplace where every call, meeting or chat will make the next one better.

If you are a Senior Software Engineer about advancing engineering excellence, leveraging AI to solve reliability challenges, and making a direct impact on millions of customers, we encourage you to apply and join our mission to transform Microsoft’s quality engineering landscape.

This role requires you to be onsite 3 days a week in Microsoft's offices in Redmond, WA.

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 large-scale distributed services using modern engineering practices.
Architect systems with well-defined interfaces and leverage telemetry data for decision-making. Ensure services are modular, secure, reliable, diagnosable, monitored, and reusable.
Improve test coverage, implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to co-develop scalable, impactful solutions.
Build reusable engineering tools that boost service health, reduce operational overhead, and empower teams with actionable insights.
Enhance observability across business-critical services to accelerate detection and diagnosis of issues.
Strengthen on-call effectiveness by modernizing incident response workflows and leveraging intelligent systems.

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.
4+ years of experience with icloud services.

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:

Experience working in large-scale enterprise environments.
Experience building or operating observability platforms (monitoring, logging, tracing) and applying AI/ML to anomaly detection or root cause analysis.
Eagerness to learn about building reliable and performant systems.
Experience with designing and implement automated solutions that reduce manual effort.
Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP) and microservices architectures.
Knowledge of AI/ML concepts and practical experience integrating AI-driven features into engineering workflows is highly desired.
Understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture.

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