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 field plus 4+ years of relevant coding experience in languages like C, C++, or Java, or equivalent experience.
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field plus 6+ years of relevant coding experience, or comparable experience with a Bachelor's and 8+ years of experience.
  • Strong experience with secure coding and best practices.
  • Ability to collaborate in cross-functional teams.
  • Skills in performance optimization and system scalability.

Responsibilities

  • Lead discussions on software architecture while ensuring performance and security standards are met.
  • Collaborate with various partner teams to ensure successful project outcomes and compliance.
  • Create independent testing strategies that encompass AI tools and ensure solution quality.
  • Enhance existing systems by building scalable and secure software solutions.
  • Conduct experiments and collaborate on metrics that drive product success and improvements.
  • Engage with stakeholders and customers to incorporate their needs into development.
  • Manage on-call duties for incident resolution and system monitoring.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare coverage including medical, dental, and vision.
  • Generous paid time off policy and flexible working arrangements.
  • Professional development opportunities and training programs.
  • Retirement savings plan with company matching.
  • A vibrant company culture that encourages innovation and collaboration.
Full Job Description
Overview

Microsoft Advertising empowers the world's largest advertisers to reach their maximum potential through digital advertising solutions on the Microsoft Advertising platform. The Ads Data Management Platform team is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic team to build a new modernized User Identity Graph by ingesting data across several Microsoft data sources, interface with the partner teams, build diagnostics and monitoring capabilities, analyze on the data source quality, and make the graph building pipeline robust and scalable while supporting the existing Graph pipeline. Additionally, this role enables the candidate to work closely with Applied Scientists to measure the graph quality by designing rigorous online and offline experimentation frameworks, working in a cross-functional setup to amplify graph usage, and translating complex data into actionable insights that drive business impact.

Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

Responsibilities
  • Lead architecture discussions, develop design specifications to meet performance, scalability, resiliency, and security standards.
  • Identify dependencies and collaborate across teams to achieve common goals, ensuring security, compliance, and performance across systems.
  • Collaborate with partner teams to ensure end-to-end testing, live-site readiness, performance, and scalability before go-live.
  • Create clear test strategies independently, ensuring solution quality, security testing, and test automation with AI tools.
  • Stay current with new developments, conduct learning sessions, and drive engineering improvements.
  • Build code applying secure design principles and best practices, scaling products to customer requirements.
  • Apply and promote security best practices, including security code review, deployment gates, monitoring, and incident response.
  • Develop or enhance software engineering tools, advocate for best practices, and share knowledge.
  • Ensure compliance with security, privacy, safety, and accessibility standards and regulations.
  • Partner with stakeholders to drive project planning, release management, and incorporate security and disaster recovery considerations.
  • Use and improve deployment frameworks ensuring safe deployment and rollback plans.
  • Lead experiments using feature flags and collaborate on metrics for success and guardrails.
  • Engage with customers and stakeholders to confirm and incorporate requirements, including security and privacy.
  • Maintain live site services, mitigate issues, improve documentation and monitoring, and enable secure operations.
  • Act as designated responsible individual (DRI) for on-call duties, incident management, and escalations.
  • Integrate telemetry and logging to improve monitoring, incident investigation, and security analysis.
  • Conduct thorough code reviews focused on quality, security, compliance, and best practices.
  • Use debugging tools and telemetry proactively to verify assumptions and investigate production issues.
  • Use AI tools responsibly across the software development lifecycle and improve AI practices within the team.


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.


#MicrosoftAI

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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