Software Engineering IC5

Serve as a recognized technical leader across teams and organizations.

Influence architecture and design decisions beyond immediate team boundaries.

Mentor senior and principal engineers.

Drive technical reviews, architecture boards, and engineering excellence initiatives.

Act as a trusted advisor to engineering leaders, product leaders, and business stakeholders.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.

10+ years of professional software engineering experience building large-scale production systems.

Experience serving as technical lead or architecture owner for complex enterprise-scale platforms.

Proven track record of delivering business-critical systems that operate reliably at scale.

Expert-level proficiency in one or more languages such as C#, Java, Python, Go, or C++.

Strong understanding of software design patterns, architecture principles, and engineering best practices.

Deep expertise in API design, microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.

Extensive experience building solutions on Azure.

Strong knowledge of cloud-native services, containers, Kubernetes, service meshes, and modern platform technologies.

Expertise in resiliency engineering, observability, and reliability engineering.

Strong understanding of relational and NoSQL systems.

Experience with SQL performance optimization, large-scale data processing, streaming platforms, and analytics systems.

Experience designing high-performance transactional systems.

Demonstrated ability to work across the entire technology stack.

Experience building modern web applications and services.

Knowledge of frontend frameworks such as React, Angular, or equivalent.

Strong backend, API, platform, and data engineering skills.

The ideal candidate should possess deep technical understanding of:

Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)

Agentic AI systems

RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)

Prompt engineering

AI observability and evaluation frameworks

AI safety and governance

AI orchestration platforms

Vector search technologies

AI-assisted software development workflows

Human-in-the-loop AI architectures

You are:

A systems thinker who sees connections across products, platforms, customers, and business strategy.

Passionate about engineering quality and operational excellence.

Obsessed with customer impact.

Comfortable navigating ambiguity and defining direction.

Able to influence without authority across organizational boundaries.

Continuously learning and adopting emerging technologies.

Excited by the opportunity to use AI as a force multiplier for innovation and engineering effectiveness.

In this role, you will help define how Microsoft commercializes the next generation of products and AI-powered services. You will influence systems that support billions of dollars in business, power global customer experiences, and enable entirely new business models.

You will help build the intelligent commerce platform that enables Microsoft's AI transformation journey, driving innovation across pricing, monetization, fulfillment, business planning, analytics, and customer engagement. Working at the intersection of Commerce and AI provides a rare opportunity to shape the future of one of Microsoft's most critical strategic platforms and contribute directly to the company's long-term growth and transformation.

We embrace a growth mindset, foster innovation, prioritize inclusion, and empower every engineer to have outsized impact. We are looking for exceptional technical leaders who are passionate about solving hard problems, raising the engineering bar, and helping define the future of AI-powered commerce.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.