Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft Corporation · Redmond, WA
$119,800–$234,700from the description
Jul 24, 2026
Redmond, WA
Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on designing, building, and operating low-level cloud security infrastructure within Azure. The work centers on distributed services at massive scale — covering areas such as identity, access management, deployment integrity, and secrets protection — running at the foundational layer of the Azure platform. Best suited to engineers with strong systems programming experience and an interest in security at hyperscale.
Senior level · 4+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Bachelor's required · 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.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 11,600 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 8,700–15,100
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 interchangeable alternatives — the role gates on proficiency in at least one of them, not all. They are emitted as separate skills with cross-alternatives to reflect this.
The 4+ year total experience requirement maps to the minimum stated in the Required Qualifications; the Preferred Qualifications describe a higher bar (6–8+ years) but those are not hard gates.
Win32 (4+ years) and ARM64 platform experience appear under Preferred Qualifications, as does PKI/encryption/digital signature experience — all marked preferred accordingly.
The degree requirement is Bachelor's in CS or related field; equivalent experience is explicitly accepted as an alternative, which would normally yield 'None', but the JD also states the degree as the primary path without clearly making equivalent experience a full substitute in the hard-gate language — treated as Bachelors given the explicit degree-first framing.
The posting lists a higher pay band for San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metro ($160,200–$261,000/year); the figures captured are the standard US-wide range.
Location is not explicitly stated beyond 'across the U.S.' — Microsoft Azure Security is headquartered in Redmond, WA (Seattle metro), used as the default CBSA.
The Microsoft Cloud Background Check is a post-hire screening requirement, not a pre-existing clearance gate; the clearance requirement is set to None.
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