Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
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This role pays more than 52% of similar roles. Most pay $169,557–$221,175 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $177k versus about $195k 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 598 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $119,800–$234,700 across 586 roles with salary data.
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As a Senior Software Engineer on the Browser Growth Engineering & Data Science team, you will design and deliver customer-facing features for Microsoft Edge that drive user acquisition, engagement, and retention. You will build and operate scalable platforms and services supporting experimentation, telemetry, customer feedback, analytics, and AI-driven scenarios. Your daily work involves managing end-to-end engineering projects from architecture through deployment while ensuring systems meet strict privacy and security requirements. To succeed, you must possess skills in distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and Azure services. You will also develop large-scale data pipelines, implement A/B testing, and integrate machine learning for operational workflows. This role solves complex technical challenges by transforming data insights into high-performing products while improving engineering productivity through automation and intelligent tooling across the browser and Copilot-powered experiences.
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