Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

Confirmed live yesterday High trust

Quick summary

Work type
On-site
Location
Redmond, WA
Salary
$119,800–$234,700 / yr
Posted
18 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Feb 20, 2027

Market check

Salary context

Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $169k
This role $177k
$106k most similar roles pay here $248k

This role pays more than 69% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$188,277 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $177k versus about $169k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About Microsoft

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 598 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 586 roles with salary data.

Most-posted roles

View all roles at Microsoft

At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Storage and File Systems team within the Azure Edge + Platform Core OS Base group, you will develop and maintain storage and file system components across Windows and Linux operating systems for client, server, and cloud environments. You will conceive, design, and implement features to address customer needs while performing performance analysis of designs against rapidly advancing technologies. Your daily work involves owning the full software engineering process, including code review, validation, and mentoring less experienced team members. The role requires proficiency in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, with preferred experience in Rust, multithreaded programming, and kernel or device driver development. You will solve complex problems regarding storage capacity, performance, and seamless integration between local and cloud boundaries for Windows, Azure, and IoT devices.

What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?

Median $202800 from 326 postings across 28 companies.

See salary data

What you'll do

  • Develop and maintain storage and file system components for Windows, Linux, and cloud systems.
  • Design and implement new storage features to meet specific customer business needs.
  • Perform performance analysis on designs and implementations based on evolving storage technologies.
  • Manage the full software engineering lifecycle including design, development, code review, and maintenance.
  • Create documentation and tools to improve team development and maintenance capabilities.
  • Participate in cross-functional design discussions and conduct peer code reviews.
  • Mentor less experienced team members to support their professional growth.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
  • 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check and other required security screenings.
  • 4+ years of experience in systems level software development in C/C++/Rust.
  • 4+ years of Systems Engineering experience with multithreaded programming, synchronization, and locking.
  • 4+ years of experience with kernel and device driver development in Linux or Windows.
  • Experience designing key-value stores such as NoSQL databases, Redis, or RocksDB with ACID transaction support.
  • Knowledge of advanced data structures including BTrees, Hash Tables, Skip Lists, LSM Trees, and RCU Synchronization.

More like this

Similar roles

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft

Redmond, WA 58 days ago $119,800$234,700
C++ Win32 COM Windows Services WinRT RPC C C# ETW IPC RDP PCoIP ICA Kernel Driver Development Threading System APIs Telemetry Agile
4+ yrs exp

Senior Software Engineer

Genworth Financial

Richmond, VA +1 61 days ago $96,700$145,000
Python Flask Azure PostgreSQL GitLab CI/CD DevSecOps JavaScript HTML CSS React Angular Vue Azure App Service Azure Synapse Pipelines SQL
5+ yrs exp Hybrid

Senior Software Engineer

Datadog

96 days ago $192,000$240,000
Go Python C Redis Cassandra Kafka Data Pipelines AI Backend Systems Feature Flags Statistics
6+ yrs exp Hybrid

Senior Software Engineer

Morningstar Inc

Chicago, IL 67 days ago
Python FastAPI Flask PostgreSQL SQL Server Weaviate Pinecone AWS S3 Aurora RDS Lambda Redis Celery Git CI/CD Pandas Plotly Matplotlib QlikView GraphQL LangGraph AutoGen OpenAI Anthropic MistralAI Transformers
5+ yrs exp Hybrid

Senior Software Engineer

Mastercard

Salt Lake City, UT 11 days ago $115,000$184,000
Java Spring Boot Spring Integration React JavaScript Node.js RxJS HTML5 CSS SQL PostgreSQL AWS GCP Azure Docker Kubernetes TDD BDD REST SOAP
5+ yrs exp

Senior Software Engineer

Caterpillar

Chicago, IL 36 days ago $153,317$183,140
Salesforce Marketing Cloud AMPscript SQL HTML CSS GTL Azure DevOps JIRA SDLC Agile Email Marketing Automation Workflows Data Integration
5+ yrs exp