Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering
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This role pays more than 67% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$193,937 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $177k versus about $172k for comparable roles.
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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
Microsoft currently has 686 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 666 roles with salary data.
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Senior Software Engineer - Data As a Senior Software Engineer - Data within the Microsoft AI and Copilot teams, you will design and develop distributed data infrastructure, APIs, and personalization pipelines. You will be responsible for architecting scalable, low-latency systems to ingest and process telemetry, product usage, and experimentation data while building real-time and batch engines that adapt Copilot’s behavior based on user context. The role involves managing orchestration, monitoring, and DevOps for critical workflows while ensuring performance and security across diverse workloads. You will utilize a technical stack including Python, C#, or Java, alongside big data processing technologies such as Kafka, Spark, and Flink. Your work focuses on the specific challenge of building intelligent, context-aware systems that allow Copilot to reason about user preferences and history while maintaining high standards for privacy and reliability in a fast-paced development cycle.
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Median $196750 from 2011 postings across 148 companies.
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