Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer - Azure Reliability

Microsoft • $119K — $234K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 4+ years of coding experience in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 6+ years of coding experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience with C#/Java/C/C++/Golang.
  • Familiarity with generative AI or agentic systems, especially in evaluation and safety/security contexts.
  • Proven ability to design and deliver platforms adopted by multiple product teams.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with product groups to apply expertise in distributed systems and cloud technology interactions.
  • Lead and mentor others in producing maintainable code across products.
  • Develop and promote best practices to enhance system and product development.
  • Drive improvements in architecture and operations using technical expertise.
  • Enhance product fundamentals and share knowledge across teams.
  • Provide technical leadership in reviews and incident responses during product cycles.
  • Resolve major incidents with deep business and technical expertise.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements with a minimum of three days in the office.
  • Opportunities for continuous learning and professional development.
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and tools.
  • Collaborative work environment fostering innovation and accountability.
Full Job Description
Overview

Azure Reliability is driving transformation to AI-powered operations by building scalable ML infrastructure that enables autonomous, reliable, and secure cloud systems. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer that can combine deep technical expertise in MLOps with a proven ability to deliver measurable business impact through continuous learning, policy-driven governance, and responsible AI practices. Success in this role means advancing operational autonomy, quality, and security, while fostering collaboration and accountability across teams.
Every day, customers stake their business and reputation on our cloud. You can help #EngOps keep them secure, resilient, and ready.

This role will require a minimum of three days in office.

Responsibilities

  • Partner across multiple product groups to apply subject-matter expertise in distributed systems design practices, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, basic dependencies at scale, and the code that defines infrastructures.
  • Lead by example and mentors' others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
  • Develop and evangelize insights, best practices, and standards that can be applied to improve system, platform, and/or product development and operations across the business.
  • Drive continuous improvements in the architecture, code, features, operations and comprehensive use scenarios of products by leveraging end-to-end technical expertise.
  • Make improvements to the product fundamentals and architecture, share knowledge and code, always looking for ways to make what we build useful to multiple teams and products.
  • Demonstrates end-to-end expertise in distributed systems design, interactions between cloud technology layers.
  • Provide technical leadership in test maturity reviews, static analysis reviews, meetings, on-call rotations, and incident responses throughout product development and operations cycles.
  • Provides deep business and technical expertise as required to resolve major incidents.
  • Embody our Culture and Values


Qualifications

Required/minimum 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.

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.

Additional or 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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ 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 C#/Java/C/C++/Golang.
  • Experience in building, shipping and operating reliable solutions.
  • Experience in databases and data services.
  • Experience with generative AI or agentic systems, such as LLM-based applications, tools/function calling, retrieval/memory, or multimodal pipelines, especially in the context of evaluation, testing, or safety/security.
  • Experience applying distributed systems concepts such as concurrency, conflict resolution, and consensus algorithms to the design of resilient and maintainable back-end architectures.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and delivering platforms or frameworks that are adopted by multiple independent product teams (e.g., shared services, SDKs, internal developer platforms, or evaluation frameworks).
  • Experience with livesite and oncall participating in monitoring the uptime and health of a service.
  • Experience building software and services on Microsoft Azure or other cloud computing platforms.
  • Experience analyzing large datasets and translating insights into product or engineering improvements.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive operational excellence through automation, scalability, reliability, and continuous improvement.


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 $160,200 - $261,000 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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