Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

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

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field with 4+ years of programming experience in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience).
  • Preferred: Master's degree in Computer Science or 6+ years of relevant experience, or Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience.
  • 5+ years building cloud services and distributed systems, with experience in Azure and cloud-native architectures.
  • Knowledge of application security, threat modeling, and vulnerability management.
  • Hands-on experience with AI-enabled applications, including large language models and related technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Design and operate AI-powered software services for security engineering in Surface Engineering Systems.
  • Develop AI-enabled workflows for teams to analyze information and make informed decisions.
  • Build scalable systems using AI techniques to support security scenarios.
  • Create monitoring approaches to assess AI system quality and effectiveness.
  • Collaborate with various teams to translate AI advancements into reliable platform capabilities.
  • Incorporate responsible AI, privacy, and compliance into AI system design and operation.
  • Provide technical leadership through documentation and collaboration with partner teams.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness packages.
  • Generous paid time-off and holidays.
  • Retirement savings plans with company matching.
  • Professional development and training opportunities.
  • Flexible work environment and remote work options.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities
  • Design, build and operate AI-powered software platform services that support security engineering across Surface Engineering Systems.
  • Develop AI-enabled workflows that help engineering and security teams analyze information, retrieve relevant context, summarize findings and make faster, higher-quality decisions.
  • Build scalable systems that use large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, semantic search, knowledge graphs and related AI techniques to support security scenarios.
  • Create evaluation, measurement and monitoring approaches that help assess AI system quality, reliability, safety and effectiveness in production environments.
  • Partner with engineering, applied science, product, security operations and other teams to translate AI advances into practical, secure, durable and reliable platform capabilities.
  • Incorporate responsible AI, privacy, security, and compliance considerations into the design, deployment and operation of AI-powered systems.
  • Provide technical leadership through design documents, architecture discussions, code reviews, and collaboration with partner teams.


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.

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.
  • 5+ years of experience building cloud services and distributed systems.
  • Experience with Azure, cloud-native architectures, APIs and platform engineering.
  • Knowledge of application security, threat modeling, vulnerability management, identity and access management, or software supply chain security.
  • Experience building AI-enabled applications using LLMs, RAG, vector search, agents, or related technologies.
  • Solid system design, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Experience in AI-native engineering practices, with hands-on experience applying AI to develop software solutions across the development lifecycle, including code generation, test automation and related workflows.
  • Experience with full-stack development, backend engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure services, or data-driven applications.
  • Experience building AI-powered solutions, intelligent automation, LLM-enabled applications, agentic workflows, or leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools.
  • Solid product mindset with a track record of owning ambiguous problem spaces and driving them to high-quality outcomes.
  • Solid engineering fundamentals, including systems design, performance and debugging in complex production environments.
  • Experience building and shipping production software or services.
  • Working knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design fundamentals.
  • Experience with cloud services, distributed systems, web experiences, or large-scale data processing.
  • Exposure to commerce, billing, metering, usage, or cost/usage reporting and analytics.
  • Familiarity with Azure, REST/API design, or telemetry and monitoring.


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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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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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