Software Engineer: Azure CTO

Overview

Come build community, explore your passions, and do your best work at Microsoft. At Microsoft, we are a company of learn-it-alls rather than know-it-alls, with a culture centered on growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and empowering teams to do their best work every day.

Our team builds and evolves foundational platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to deliver features safely, operate services reliably, and respond quickly when issues occur.

You'll join a collaborative engineering team where you'll ship production code, learn operational excellence practices, and work with partners across disciplines. You'll build confidence navigating a large codebase, improving quality through testing and telemetry, and contributing to well-scoped features that matter.

As a Software Engineer, you will contribute to well-defined features and improvements, implement and test code, and learn how to operate and support production services. You'll work with a technical lead and partners (e.g., program management) to understand requirements, break down work, and deliver reliably while growing your engineering judgment and skills.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

The target start date range for this role is June-September, 2026.

Responsibilities

• Works with stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to clarify user requirements for a set of features; incorporates feedback and metrics over time.
• Contributes to feature-level architecture proposals and design documents / user stories with oversight; considers security and compliance needs.
• Implements code for a product/service/feature using best practices; writes maintainable, extensible code with diagnosability and reliability in mind.
• Creates a clear plan for testing; adds/maintains unit tests and improves test coverage; leverages automation when possible.
• Uses debugging tools, logs, and telemetry to verify assumptions and find root causes; participates in live site support / on-call rotation as needed, escalating appropriately.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, Java, Python, Rust, or Go,
  • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical field, AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, Java, Python, Rust or Go,
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, Java, Python, Rust or Go,
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with distributed systems.
• AI fluency (e.g., experience with AI tools, AI-assisted development, etc.).

Software Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $109,000 - $180,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.