Software Engineer at Microsoft

Department: Software Engineering

Compensation

$102,100 – $202,200/yr

Setup: On-site
Location: Redmond, Washington
Type: Full-time
Level: mid
Posted: Aug 26, 2026

Description

Microsoft is hiring a Software Engineering IC3 to design, build, and operate distributed services and microservices on Azure for commercial catalog, search, purchase, fulfillment, metering, and billing experiences. The role owns features end-to-end, integrates AI capabilities, improves performance and scalability, ensures data and security compliance, collaborates with cross-functional teams, mentors engineers, and participates in on-call and DevOps practices. Candidates need a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field and at least two years of technical engineering experience; cloud-scale or AI-enhanced software engineering experience is preferred. The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $102,100-$202,200 per year, with higher ranges for the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area.

Required Skills

Azure
Microservices
C#
Python
JavaScript
REST APIs
Kubernetes
CI/CD
LLM applications
RAG pipelines

Additional Information

Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
Required Previous Experiences: At least 2 years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications: 3–5 years of software engineering experience, preferably in cloud-scale or AI-enhanced services
Proficiency in C#, Python, or JavaScript and familiarity with Azure or AWS
Experience with REST APIs and relational or NoSQL data stores
Fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and debugging
Experience with AI development tools and frameworks
Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, GitHub workflows, and infrastructure-as-code
Ability to lead design efforts and deliver production-grade solutions
Experience building or operating large-scale cloud services on Azure or another major cloud
Familiarity with commerce, billing, or marketplace/storefront systems
Experience with Kubernetes, event-driven architectures, or high-throughput data pipelines
Experience building LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, agent frameworks, or fine-tuning
Written communication through design documents, postmortems, and release notes
Contributions to live-site and SRE practices, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response

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