Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft is seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer in the United States, Washington, to help drive the architecture, development, and evolution of forecasting and planning systems. As a technical leader, you will collaborate across engineering, product, data science, and partner teams to build highly scalable distributed systems, modernize legacy infrastructure, improve platform reliability and observability, and enable the next generation of monetization capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture, design, implementation, testing, and delivery of highly scalable distributed platforms that power forecasting, inventory allocation, reach estimation, capacity planning, and other mission-critical business capabilities, establishing and championing engineering best practices.
• Drive technical strategy and engineering decisions across teams, influencing architecture direction, platform modernization, and long-term technology investments while aligning with business objectives.
• Develop durable, cloud-native solutions that balance scalability, reliability, performance, security, operational excellence, and maintainability.
• Own platform health and operational excellence by establishing robust observability, monitoring, telemetry, alerting, resiliency, and automation practices that improve system reliability and reduce operational burden.
• Improve engineering efficiency and platform evolution through service consolidation, platform simplification, automation, and adoption of modern engineering practices that boost developer productivity and accelerate delivery.
• Partner closely with Product teams, Data Science, and business stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into impactful technical solutions and measurable customer value.
• Serve as the Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for critical services, providing technical leadership during production operations, incident response, capacity planning, and service lifecycle management.
• Build organizational capability by mentoring engineers, developing future technical leaders, and fostering a culture of technical excellence, accountability, continuous learning, and innovation.

Requirements

• Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
• Other Requirements:
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
• Solid software engineering experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems using cloud-native services and data-intensive platforms with proficiency in Spark.
• Experience leading complex cross-team engineering initiatives, system design, service architecture, reliability engineering, and production operations.
• Strong problem-solving and technical leadership skills.
• Solid understanding of generalized architecture patterns, data structures, algorithms, and time complexity.
• Experience designing, building, or supporting applications on Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience with modern software development stack including APIs, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevOps, cloud-native architectures, and AI application development.
• Knowledge of Azure services.