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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing
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The Senior Software Engineer - CoreAI joins the Core Services team to ensure Azure DevOps scales to meet growing customer demands. This role focuses on scaling out Azure DevOps and GitHub scenarios by designing, developing, testing, and supporting features and solutions. The engineer will lead technical direction for end-to-end business scenarios, troubleshoot complex issues across the full tech stack including frontend and database layers, and participate in on-call rotations. Key responsibilities include mentoring peers and performing code reviews. Required technical skills include proficiency in C#, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, or Python, along with knowledge of system design, algorithms, and data structures. The work involves building highly available, multi-tenant distributed systems and cloud services to improve developer productivity and handle large-scale data.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $196000 from 2584 postings across 147 companies.
Design, develop, test, and support features and solutions primarily using C#.
Provide technical direction for the design and development of end-to-end business scenarios.
Maintain and support highly available services used by millions of daily developers.
Troubleshoot complex issues across the entire tech stack, including frontend and database layers.
Participate in on-call rotations to triage issues and improve overall service health.
Mentor team members through code reviews, pairing, and delegating work for professional growth.
Scale out Azure DevOps and GitHub scenarios to meet growing customer demands.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience).
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
8+ years of professional experience using C#/C/C++/Java/JavaScript (preferred).
1+ year of experience on Azure DevOps (preferred).
Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related fields (preferred).
Experience building and operating multi-tenant services at large scale (preferred).
Applied knowledge of system design, algorithms, and data structures (preferred).
Experience designing, building, and running large scale and highly available cloud services or distributed systems (preferred).
Azure
Distributed Systems
C#
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript
C
Kubernetes
AWS
Cloud Platform
Telemetry
Monitoring
Source Control
Automated Testing
platform-engineering