• AI-Enabled Engineering: independently applies AI tools and modern engineering practices across the software development lifecycle to improve productivity, quality, and engineering effectiveness
• Architecture & Design Leadership: leads architectural discussions, evaluates and tests design hypotheses, and develops detailed specifications for complex solutions
• Quality, Test Strategy, & Code Review: independently develops comprehensive test strategies that ensure solution quality, reliability, and correctness. Reviews product code to ensure sufficient test coverage, engineering quality, and adherence to established coding and design standards
• Cross-Team Collaboration: collaborates effectively across internal and external teams to identify dependencies, resolve technical issues, and drive alignment toward shared goals
• Software Engineering Excellence: writes extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant production quality code
• Debugging, Problem Solving, & Security by Design: uses debugging, diagnostic, and engineering tools to validate assumptions, identify root causes, and continuously improve code and system quality. Implements security standards and drives security hardening across solutions, ensuring defense in depth and appropriate security at every layer

We are looking for someone with deep technical instincts, systems thinking, and the ability to lead through engineering influence. Someone who is equally comfortable diving into a difficult technical problem, driving architectural clarity, facing assumptions, and bringing teams together around the right long-term solution. The ideal candidate is curious, pragmatic, collaborative, and passionate about engineering excellence., * Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Rust or Python

• 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, * Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Rust or Python
• OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Rust or Python
• OR equivalent experience
• Experience working on DPU is a plus.

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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year.