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About the Role
Microsoft Cloud Operations + Innovation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong full-stack development experience to build secure, scalable, and intelligent platforms. You will translate complex requirements into reliable, maintainable, and intuitive solutions, working closely with product managers, engineering teams, and business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product managers, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to understand user needs and translate requirements into secure, scalable, and accessible full-stack solutions.
- Design, develop, test, and operate modern web applications using C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, REST APIs, and front-end technologies such as React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Blazor, or comparable frameworks.
- Create, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse high-quality code to improve application performance, reliability, security, accessibility, maintainability, and operational efficiency.
- Design and implement secure service integrations using REST APIs, OpenAPI specifications, OAuth 2.0, Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, role-based access control, and API management patterns.
- Build AI-powered applications and agents using Microsoft Foundry, Foundry Agent Service, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Microsoft Agent Framework, Semantic Kernel, or related technologies, including grounding, tool integration, orchestration, evaluation, monitoring, and responsible AI controls.
- Apply AI-assisted engineering tools and practices to improve development velocity and quality across requirements analysis, architecture, coding, code review, testing, debugging, modernization, documentation, and live-site investigation.
- Develop agent tools and integrations that securely connect AI experiences to enterprise APIs, data sources, workflows, and business systems while respecting user identity, authorization, data boundaries, and least-privilege access.
- Partner with other engineering teams to identify dependencies, resolve complex system-integration challenges, and develop design documents for products, services, APIs, and platform capabilities.
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, release planning, testing, deployment, telemetry implementation, and production readiness activities.
- Support live-site operations as a Designated Responsible Individual when appropriate, investigate service degradation, communicate status, and contribute to restoring service for complex issues.
- Proactively learn and apply emerging engineering and AI patterns that improve system availability, observability, security, performance, evaluation quality, and operational consistency at scale.
- Share reusable code, prompts, agent tools, evaluation assets, engineering practices, and technical learnings with the broader engineering community.
Requirements
- 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.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- Must pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field AND 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, or a master’s degree in computer science or a related technical field AND 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
- 6+ Professional experience designing, developing, testing, and operating full-stack web applications or distributed software systems.
- 4+ years’ experience developing backend services and APIs using C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, or comparable server-side technologies.
- 2+ years’ experience building responsive and accessible web experiences using React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Blazor, Angular, Vue.js, or comparable front-end frameworks.
- 2+ years’ experience designing and integrating REST APIs, including API contracts, versioning, error handling, authentication, authorization, telemetry, and resiliency.
- 1+ years’ experience implementing secure authentication and authorization using OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, Microsoft Entra ID, managed identities, or comparable identity platforms.
- 6+ years’ experience applying software engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, design patterns, automated testing, code reviews, source control, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
- 6+ months of demonstrated use of AI-assisted development tools, such as GitHub Copilot or comparable tools, to improve engineering efficiency, code quality, testing, troubleshooting, or documentation.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and collaborate across engineering, product, and business disciplines.
- Experience with agent-development concepts such as tool calling, prompt and context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, Azure AI Search, structured outputs, conversation state, multi-agent orchestration, agent identity, evaluation, tracing, observability, and safety controls.
- Familiarity with project scheduling, Oracle Primavera P6, work-breakdown structures, milestone management, schedule analytics.
- 2+ years of experience with enterprise data platforms and integration technologies such as Microsoft Fabric, Dataverse, Power Platform.
- Demonstrated ability to work across organizational boundaries, manage technical dependencies, mentor other engineers, and contribute reusable engineering assets and practice.
Skills
- C#
- .NET
- ASP.NET Core
- REST APIs
- React
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Blazor
- OpenAPI specifications
- OAuth 2.0
- Microsoft Entra ID
- Managed identities
- Role-based access control
- API management patterns
- Microsoft Foundry
- Foundry Agent Service
- Azure OpenAI
- Azure AI Search
- Microsoft Agent Framework
- Semantic Kernel
- GitHub Copilot
- Object-oriented design
- Data structures
- Design patterns
- Automated testing
- Code reviews
- Source control
- Continuous integration
- Continuous delivery
- Agent development concepts
- Tool calling
- Prompt engineering
- Context engineering
- Retrieval-augmented generation
- Structured outputs
- Conversation state
- Multi-agent orchestration
- Agent identity
- Evaluation
- Tracing
- Observability
- Safety controls
- Project scheduling
- Oracle Primavera P6
- Work-breakdown structures
- Milestone management
- Schedule analytics
- Microsoft Fabric
- Dataverse
- Power Platform
Experience Level
- Senior
- 4+ years technical engineering experience
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 6+ Professional experience
- 4+ years’ experience
- 2+ years’ experience
- 1+ years’ experience
- 6+ years’ experience
- 6+ months of demonstrated use
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
- Master's degree in computer science or a related technical field
Salary/Compensations
- USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (U.S. typical base pay range)
- USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area)
Benefits
- Eligible for benefits and other compensation
About the Company
- Microsoft Cloud Operations + Innovation is the team behind the infrastructure that powers Microsoft’s cloud.
- 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.
- We build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.