Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 16, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe Senior Software Engineer is responsible for driving complex modernization initiatives across diverse engineering teams. This role requires deep technical expertise in .NET technologies, strategic planning capabilities, and the ability to collaborate across organizational boundaries. The ideal candidate will lead efforts to transition legacy .NET Framework applications to modern .NET Core environments, including containerization and cross-platform deployment.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.
ResponsibilitiesPartners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers. | |