Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
$119,800.00 - $234,700.00 / yr
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 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Feb 04, 2026 | |
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Overview
Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. We are a crossfunctional squad responsible for building and operating secure, scalable platform capabilities that protect customer data in increasingly agentic and AIdriven workflows. The team owns endtoend delivery-from design and implementation to operations-focusing on highimpact security outcomes aligned to customer trust, compliance, and reliability. Operating under the squad model, we emphasize autonomy, clear ownership, fast decisionmaking, and close collaboration with partner squads to deliver durable, extensible solutions at scale. As a Senior Software Engineer, you are a core contributor within the squad, owning meaningful features and services from concept through production. You collaborate closely with engineers, PMs, and partner squads to solve complex problems, drive technical clarity, and deliver highquality outcomes. You are accountable for engineering excellence within your scope-designing robust systems, maintaining service health, and continuously improving reliability, security, and operational efficiency-while contributing to the overall effectiveness and autonomy of the squad. 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 Responsibilities: - Design and deliver high-quality software components and services end-to-end, with a strong focus on security, privacy, reliability, and maintainability. - Drive architecture and design reviews for larger features/components; write clear specs covering design, implementation, testing, telemetry, and documentation. - Build and operate cloud services at scale, improving automation, availability, scalability, resiliency, efficiency, and overall service health for complex distributed systems. - Troubleshoot and resolve live-site issues across the stack using debugging tools, logs, and telemetry; lead root-cause analysis and deliver durable fixes and mitigations. - Implement monitoring, reporting, and telemetry to detect trends, measure success, and reduce operational overhead via automation/self-healing based on reliable signals. - Collaborate across disciplines and partner teams (PM, security/privacy SMEs, other engineering teams) to align on requirements, tradeoffs, dependencies, and delivery plans. - Provide technical leadership and mentorship through code/design reviews, raising engineering standards, and helping other engineers be more effective while owning a component area. Embody ourcultureandvalues Qualifications Qualifications - Other Requirements:
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.
#MSPurview 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: 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. | |