The Senior Software Engineer role at Microsoft focuses on building backend services for the advertising business, utilizing C#/.NET on Azure. The team is tight-knit and values high-impact work, allowing engineers to own features from design to production. The position involves driving a significant migration to Azure Kubernetes and delivering full-stack features that enhance user experience. Engineers will also have opportunities to work on AI-powered product features as the platform evolves.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Experience with C#/.NET and Azure cloud services such as AKS, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, and Azure SQL.
• Experience with production live-site engineering, observability tooling, and incident response.
• Familiarity with GraphQL, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code.

• Design and build backend services in C#/.NET on Azure.
• Drive a large-scale infrastructure migration from VMs to Kubernetes.
• Deliver full-stack features across GraphQL APIs and TypeScript frontends.
• Own production health, incident response, and observability.
• Mentor team members in coding best practices and extensible code production.
• Lead discussions for architecture of complex products ensuring solution quality.
• Integrate logging and instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to determine customer/user requirements.

• 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.