Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Redmond, Washington, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

25 Feb, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

27 Nov, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Security Best Practices, Software Design, Cloud Platforms, Distributed Systems, AI Integration, Agile Development, Data Analytics, System Architecture, Performance Optimization, Incident Response, Troubleshooting, Telemetry, Scalability, Resiliency, Full-Stack Development, Service-Oriented Architecture

Industry

Software Development

Description

Understands and applies security best practices and establishes code invariants to model "security as code," ensuring each layer is independently secure, and minimizing risk. Supports and/or adopts security standards for clear security code review practices for a project/sub-system of a product that align with design and engineering principles to raise the security hardening for both protections and detections. Incorporates deployment gates on security controls, and scanners for a project/sub-system of a product to prevent regressions and/or vulnerabilities that would have customer impact. Includes required security monitoring to ensure detection of violations. Independently works with relevant security partners to define security promises and security invariants for the design of a product/solution while factoring in attacker/investigator personas for security monitoring and telemetry needs, ensure threat models and premortems validate upstream and downstream assumptions and security invariants, establish security breach drills and security incident response processes (e.g., impact analysis, containment), and ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) safety features are implemented for the AI production systems tied to a project/sub-system of a product. Leads discussions for and owns the architecture of a products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and develop complex design specifications. Tests and explores various design options for a complex product/solution scenario, outlining strengths and weaknesses of each option. Independently collaborates with architects to build and modify complex products/solutions, providing feedback as needed. Owns or collaborates with other engineers on the architecture of solutions, with minimal technical oversight. Develops design documents that support user stories and other product requirements. Maintains awareness of the current technology landscape, and determines how to integrate these technologies within existing systems. Shares learnings and identified solutions from investigations with the team and owns for some design decisions. Ensures system architecture and individual designs meet performance, scalability, resiliency, cost of goods sold (COGS), disaster recovery, and other requirements and expectations. Understands and coaches less experienced engineers on the importance of building solutions that expand upon the work of others. Drives the refinement of products through data analytics, and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration. Reviews designs/architectures within and across teams to provide recommendations for improvements. Modernize a highly time-sensitive, large-scale data processing system where precision and reliability are critical. Leverage the latest technologies to deliver innovative features and create new value for our customers. Collaborate in an agile, cross-functional environment, partnering with multiple commerce teams to design and implement seamless cross-service integrations. Uses debugging tools, tests, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively verify assumptions while developing code before issues occur for products in production. Conducts incident retrospectives to identify root causes of problems, implements repair actions, and identifies mechanisms to prevent incident recurrence. Independently applies least-access principles, uses logging, telemetry, and other appropriate mechanisms to investigate issues while retaining privacy and security, and drives those practices across the team. Maintains operations of live site service, following security best practices when responding quickly to mitigate issues while using the minimum required permissions to do so that arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of live site service and escalates appropriately. Reviews and writes incident postmortem and presents insights that drive changes to reduce or eliminate incidents. Independently improves troubleshooting guides (TSGs), wikis, tests, and telemetry to make on-call better, and recommends user-facing support documentation and additional test coverage to reduce likelihood of future user-initiated incidents. Enables secure operations, security monitoring, and integration with live site investigation activities. Identifies and proposes opportunities (e.g., lunch talks, automation, practices, tools) that can be leveraged to improve the live site experience. Adds comprehensive observability and monitoring to services. Embody our culture and values. 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. Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in software design and development, with a proven track record of delivering large-scale, high-performance, scalable systems. This includes experience in application/service development and full-stack development. Proven experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems using cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS. Experience with architectural and technical system design skills, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance. Proficient in distributed system management and service-oriented architecture. Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex service issues and optimize system performance. Hands-on experience with AI coding practices and integrating AI into engineering workflows. Familiarity with agentic frameworks and building AI agent-based applications. Passion for building highly scalable systems and continuously improving engineering standards. Experience working in agile development environments with a ownership mindset.

Responsibilities

The Senior Software Engineer will apply security best practices to ensure the integrity of software systems and lead discussions on architecture proposals. They will also collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement scalable solutions while maintaining system performance and reliability.