We are looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer to build, operate, and improve highly reliable, secure, and scalable software systems.
In this role, you will own features and services end‑to‑end, contribute to design and architecture decisions within your problem space, and deliver high‑quality code that meets Microsoft’s standards for security, performance, and reliability.

You will work closely with product managers, partner teams, and other engineers to translate customer and business requirements into well‑engineered solutions. This role is hands‑on, with strong expectations around coding, testing, live‑site ownership, and continuous improvement.

• Define and drive long‑term technical vision and strategy for AI‑assisted, cloud‑based production services, influencing direction across multiple teams or a critical platform area.
• Own end‑to‑end service health at scale, ensuring reliability, security, performance, and operational readiness across the full lifecycle—from architecture and design through live‑site operations.
• Make high‑impact architectural and investment decisions, evaluating complex trade‑offs that balance customer value, business priorities, risk, and long‑term sustainability.
• Establish and uphold a high bar for engineering excellence and code quality, setting standards, design patterns, and review practices adopted broadly across teams.
• Act as a force multiplier by mentoring engineers across levels, unblocking highly ambiguous problems, and raising overall organizational capability through technical leadership and influence.
• Partner closely with product, security, SRE, and operations teams, as well as senior leadership, to align engineering strategy with business objectives and customer commitments.
• Own live‑site strategy and operational governance, including incident response frameworks, operational reviews, and driving sustained reliability improvements through post‑incident learnings.
• Drive adoption and evolution of modern DevOps and operational practices to improve deployment velocity, reduce toil, and consistently meet service‑level objectives (SLOs/SLAs).

• Demonstrated experience setting technical direction at organization or division scope, with sustained impact across multiple teams or large platform surfaces.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 4+ years owning production services in cloud/distributed systems.
• Proven ownership of high‑scale, cloud‑based services, with deep accountability for reliability, security, availability, and performance in production environments.
• Strong track record of end‑to‑end service ownership, spanning architecture, implementation, deployment, monitoring, live‑site operations, and continuous improvement.
• Ability to solve highly ambiguous, cross‑cutting problems with no clear owner, applying strong systems thinking, judgment, and technical depth.
• Demonstrated expertise in diagnosing and resolving complex production issues involving performance, availability, correctness, and multi‑service dependencies.
• Deep experience applying and evolving DevOps, SRE, and operational excellence practices to improve service health and reduce operational overhead at scale.
• Proven ability to influence senior leadership and executive stakeholders, clearly articulating technical risks, trade‑offs, and long‑term impact in business terms.
• Willingness to participate in escalation paths and executive‑level incident response, shaping long‑term reliability strategy rather than focusing solely on short‑term remediation.

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.