Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft Corporation · Redmond, WA
$119,800–$234,700from the description
Jul 25, 2026
Redmond, WA
Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role on the DW Swift team within Microsoft Fabric's SQL Data Warehouse, focused on building and maintaining the infrastructure and engineering systems that underpin feature development and delivery. Day-to-day work covers deployment automation, cluster provisioning, validation pipelines, and release tooling, with AI used to improve engineering workflows. The role suits engineers with a background in large-scale distributed systems and cloud infrastructure who are comfortable working across multiple teams.
Senior level · 4+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
We read this from the posting text with AI. Skim the description below before ruling yourself out.
How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 9,100 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 6,800–11,900
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The required coding languages (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python) are listed as a group of interchangeable options under the Required Qualifications section — any one of them satisfies the gate. They are captured as a single skill with alternatives per the interchangeable-options rule.
Cloud platform experience (Azure, AWS, or GCP) appears only under Preferred Qualifications, so it is marked preferred. Azure is listed first with the others as alternatives.
Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, and Power BI appear in the product/team context narrative rather than in any requirements section; they are marked preferred as stack context.
The base pay range of USD $119,800–$234,700/year is the standard US range; a higher range of $160,200–$261,000/year applies specifically to the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metro areas.
The role is classified as IC4 (Individual Contributor level 4) in Microsoft's internal leveling, which aligns with Senior Software Engineer.
A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience satisfies the degree gate — equivalent experience is explicitly accepted, so the degree requirement is set to None.
The posting does not specify a single work location beyond 'across the U.S.' with pay differentials for SF Bay Area and NYC; Redmond/Seattle is inferred as the likely primary location given this is a Microsoft Azure team role.
Read the full posting
The employer publishes the full description on their own site — read it there ↗. Or sign in to read it here — it's free, and it also lets you track this application.