Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Department: Software Engineering

Compensation

$119,800 – $234,700/yr

Setup: Hybrid
Location: Redmond, Washington
Type: Full-time
Level: senior
Posted: Oct 1, 2026

Description

Microsoft is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate secure Python and C# services and internal tooling for security assurance, compliance evidence collection, control validation, and risk surfacing. The role applies agentic coding and AI-assisted workflows, establishes production monitoring, integrates Azure and Microsoft Graph systems, and provides technical leadership through architecture and code reviews. Candidates need a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field plus at least four years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience; the typical U.S. base pay range is USD 119,800–234,700 per year.

Required Skills

Python
C#
Azure
Microsoft Graph
CI/CD
Kubernetes
Threat modeling
RAG
Incident response

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
Required Previous Experiences: At least 4 years of technical engineering experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
At least 5 years of experience building cloud services and distributed systems with Azure, cloud-native architecture, and API and platform engineering
Working knowledge of security or compliance engineering, including application security, threat modeling, vulnerability management, identity and access management, software supply chain security, or audit and control automation
Hands-on experience building AI-enabled applications using large language models, agent frameworks, tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, or evaluation harnesses
Experience with AI-native engineering practices across the development lifecycle, including code generation, refactoring, test automation, and code review
Direct experience automating evidence collection or continuous control monitoring against recognized frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, PCI DSS, NIST 800-53, or HIPAA
Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipeline engineering, containers, and Kubernetes
Familiarity with detection engineering, security data pipelines, SIEM tooling, or incident response automation
Preferred Qualifications: Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
At least 6 years of technical engineering experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
At least 8 years of technical engineering experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
Equivalent experience
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