The Senior Software Engineer role within the Azure Managed Redis team focuses on delivering a fully managed Redis experience to customers globally. The team is responsible for the critical systems that deploy, upgrade, monitor, and heal Redis clusters at scale, ensuring high availability and low latency. The engineer will lead architecture and design for runtime infrastructure, drive integration of Redis Enterprise software, and apply AI techniques to enhance engineering workflows. This position offers an opportunity to influence technical strategy and mentor other engineers while contributing to a high-impact cloud service.

• 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.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
• Master's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, 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#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience building and operating distributed and highly scalable online services on Kubernetes in Azure or a similar cloud platform.
• 6+ months of experience applying AI technologies in software development workflows.

• Design and deliver foundational platform capabilities and microservices for a hyperscale managed service.
• Own end-to-end release engineering for a large-scale, mission-critical live service.
• Lead critical technical decisions and execution across multiple teams.
• Drive reliability, observability, and operational excellence across the fleet.
• Champion AI-assisted engineering to accelerate delivery while raising the quality bar.
• Build and improve observability, monitoring, and diagnostics tooling to enable rapid incident detection and root-cause analysis.

• Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.