Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft; United States; Remote; USD 119,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Microsoft is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Azure’s configuration distribution platform. The role involves designing scalable, reliable systems for cloud services, mentoring engineers, and contributing to architectural decisions. Candidates should have significant experience in distributed systems and coding in C, C++, C#, or Rust. Join us to tackle complex infrastructure challenges while benefiting from up to 100% remote work flexibility.

Benefits

Flexible remote work options

Comprehensive benefits package

Qualifications

• 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding.
• 3+ years experience in distributed systems cloud-based services.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements scalable, fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Drives design documents and identifies dependencies.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI).

Skills

C

C++

C#

Rust

Distributed Systems

Cloud-based Services

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field

Job description

Interested in building core infrastructure that powers configuration across Azure? We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the team behind Azure’s configuration distribution platform—a foundational system responsible for delivering configuration securely and reliably at scale. This service plays a critical role in how cloud services across Azure operate, deploy, and stay resilient. Our platform addresses one of the most complex challenges in cloud systems: distributing configuration across dynamic, large-scale fleets of microservices, containers, and virtual machines (VMs) that are continuously scaling and evolving across multiple regions.

You’ll work on highly visible, technically demanding problems—designing and implementing scalable, fault-tolerant systems that improve reliability across the stack. This is a great opportunity to make a platform-level impact while working alongside engineers who are passionate about solving hard infrastructure problems. This Senior Software Engineer role offers the opportunity to take ownership of key components in Azure’s configuration distribution platform—a foundational system within our cloud architecture. You’ll design and build distributed systems that handle scale, reliability, and security under real-world conditions. Working closely with technical leads and partner teams, you’ll help evolve the platform’s architecture, contribute to critical design decisions, and implement features that directly impact how services across Azure operate.

The role offers deep technical challenges, cross-team visibility, and the chance to shape the future of platform-wide configuration infrastructure. You'll bring a systems-thinking mindset, write robust and maintainable code, and mentor engineers while continuing to grow your own technical leadership. With up to 100% flexibility for remote work, this position supports long-term development in both depth and influence.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

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#, or Rust
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of coding/designing experience in distributed systems cloud based services.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 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#, or Rust
  • OR 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#, or Rust
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of coding/designing experience in distributed systems cloud based services.

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 $158,400 - $258,000 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

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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