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Senior Software Engineer - HR Employee Experience

Microsoft
$119,800.00 - $234,700.00 / yr
United States, Washington, Redmond
May 13, 2026
Overview Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what canbeand take their careersfurther. This is a world ofmorepossibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the skyisthelimit ofthinkingina cloud-enabled world. The HREmployeeExperienceEngineeringteam builds, runs, and continuously improves themission of criticalproducts and services that power Microsoft's internal workforce.We turn bold ideas into transformational solutions that make Microsoft teams work smarter, faster, and more securelyevery single day. A core pillar of our mission is artificial intelligence (AI) enabledempowerment: we embed intelligent automation,large language model (LLM) drivenassistants, and predictive analytics into every product to surface the right information at the right time, streamline routine tasks, and uncover insights that help employees thrive. Our engineers bring deep technicalexpertise, strong business acumen, and firsthand experience atmassivescale.We aretechnology leaders,digitaltransformationagents, and passionate customer advocates who love solvingrealworldproblems for both Microsoft and our external partners. Responsibilities Design and build highquality systems by leading architecture and design discussions, ensuring scalability, reliability, compliance, and performance. Independently use AI tools across the software development lifecycle responsibly and improve processes leveraging AI. Apply strong engineering practices in coding, reviews, and testing, with a focus on security, maintainability, and performance. Collaborate with internal and external teams to identify dependencies and reach common goals. Write code that is extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant. Implement security standards to raise security hardening across solutions, ensuring each layer is independently secure. Drive test strategy and automation, including AIassisted testing, security testing, and validation across preproduction and production. Ensure secure and compliant delivery by implementing security invariants and meeting privacy, safety, accessibility, and audit requirements. Own deployment and release excellence, using safe deployment frameworks, automation, rollback strategies, and zerotouch deployment goals. Operate and improve livesite reliability by acting as the directly responsible individual (DRI), managing incidents, improving oncall processes, and leading postmortems. Leverage telemetry and experimentation through logging, monitoring, feature flags, and metrics to validate assumptions and guide decisions. Qualifications 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. Preferred Qualifications Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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. 5+ years of experience architecting and building solutions on Azure or comparable cloud platforms. 5+ years of experience in design, developing and implementing Power Platform module D365 Customer Service, which meets the business requirements of the organization. 4+ years of experience designing, building, and managing highscale fullstack systems, including authentication, microservices, distributed systems, data and analytics workloads, and AI training and inferencing services. 1+ year of experience with AIdriven, cloudbased architectural patterns. 1+ year of experience using AIassisted development tools to improve productivity, including building agents with Microsoft Copilot and Agent Framework. Foundational knowledge of Business Rules, workflows and Provisioning configurations. Software development experience across Microsoft Copilot, Agent Framework, web and API development, UX technologies, and NoSQL databases. Knowledge of modern Agentic AI patterns and practices. Ability to work effectively with partner teams across organizations. Software Engineering IC4 - 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 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.