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Senior Software Engineer - Azure Compute Next Gen Platform

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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United States$119.8k - $234.7kfull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior IC4-level software engineering role focused on foundational cloud infrastructure for Azure Compute Next Gen Platform, emphasizing architecture leadership, AI-enabled engineering, and security-conscious development across the software lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • AI-Enabled Engineering: independently applies AI tools and modern engineering practices across the software development lifecycle to improve productivity, quality, and engineering effectiveness
  • Architecture & Design Leadership: leads architectural discussions, evaluates and tests design hypotheses, and develops detailed specifications for complex solutions
  • Quality, Test Strategy, & Code Review: independently develops comprehensive test strategies that ensure solution quality, reliability, and correctness. Reviews product code to ensure sufficient test coverage, engineering quality, and adherence to established coding and design standards
  • Cross-Team Collaboration: collaborates effectively across internal and external teams to identify dependencies, resolve technical issues, and drive alignment toward shared goals
  • Software Engineering Excellence: writes extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant production quality code
  • Debugging, Problem Solving, & Security by Design: uses debugging, diagnostic, and engineering tools to validate assumptions, identify root causes, and continuously improve code and system quality. Implements security standards and drives security hardening across solutions, ensuring defense in depth and appropriate security at every layer

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#, Rust or Python OR equivalent experience

Skills

Required:Programming LanguagesArchitectural DesignTesting & Quality AssuranceSecurity
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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