Senior Software Engineer

Windows 365 Cloud PC (W365) and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) have recently been recognized as leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Desktop as a Service (DaaS), two years in a row.  We continue to see expansion of these services and amazing adoption by enterprise and business customers. At its core, W365 and AVD provide business customers a modern, elastic, cloud-based Windows experience, and the ability to stay current in a simplistic and scalable manner. It has never been a more exciting time for us to scale this initiative!

As a Senior Software Engineer in the W365 and AVD team, you will get an amazing opportunity to demonstrate leadership at both business and technology level. You will get to extend your knowledge of cloud computing, desktop virtualization, streaming technologies, and other technical areas including cloud-based management suites. You will be part of a team designing new platform capabilities involving virtualized compute, storage, networking, GPUs (Graphic Processing Units), core connectivity services and streaming protocols (such as RDP - Remote Desktop Protocol) for our products to enhance the value to our customer base. You will also be a part of an agile team working with experienced engineers and product managers that behave more like a technology startup.

You will design and implement software components to enable and optimize the Windows 365 Cloud PC (W365) and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) service backend. You will help build cloud infrastructure services at scale to enable feature teams to increase the velocity at which they can safely deploy changes to production and monitor the effects of changes across the footprint. You will also analyze telemetry data to develop capacity planning models, identify patterns and trends that drive continuous improvement, and highlight opportunities to deploy automation to monitor and manage Windows Cloud services across sites.

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.

Required Qualifications:

• 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#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience designing, implementing, and delivering cloud-based data solutions, services, or platforms.

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 12+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience designing, implementing, and delivering cloud-based data solutions, services, or platforms.
• 5+ years of experience designing and delivering distributed data systems or cloud-scale data platforms with a focus on scalability, security, and resilience.
• Proven ability to communicate effectively and collaborate across engineering, product, and business teams.
• Demonstrated success working across organizational boundaries to deliver shared solutions to complex technical challenges.
• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly ramp up, understand complex systems, and create impactful data solutions.

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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

• Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 2, 2025.

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• Design and implement scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to support analytics, telemetry, and operational insights across cloud services.
  
  
• Automate data workflows and orchestration for ingestion, transformation, and validation of large-scale datasets, ensuring reliability and performance.
  
  
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business, product, and engineering requirements into robust data engineering solutions.
• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of data products, including schema design, metadata management, deployment, monitoring, and optimization.
• Drive data quality and governance through validation frameworks, anomaly detection, and lineage tracking across distributed systems.
• Enable advanced analytics and reporting capabilities by integrating operational and telemetry data into centralized platforms.
• Champion engineering excellence and cost efficiency, identifying opportunities to optimize compute, storage, and data processing workflows.