Microsoft Circular Logo

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Posted: 13 Jun 2025

Financial

  • Estimate: $80k - $100k*
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Fully Remote
  • Apply from abroad
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

Are you passionate about solving deep technical challenges that are foundational to Microsoft’s and Azure’s future? Do you aspire to build cloud-scale services that empower billions of users and drive multi-billion-dollar businesses? If so, consider joining the Azure Compute Platform team.

Azure Compute is the backbone of Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure, orchestrating end-to-end customer scenarios across millions of servers in data centers worldwide. We transform this global infrastructure into flexible, reliable, and scalable compute capacity—enabling everything from startups to the world’s largest enterprises to innovate and thrive in the cloud.

As part of Azure Core Compute, you’ll contribute to the platform that powers every application running on Azure. Whether it’s enabling elastic compute, optimizing performance, or ensuring reliability at scale, your work will shape the future of cloud computing and redefine what’s possible for our customers.

We are a team that values curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning. We work across boundaries to deliver seamless experiences and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work. If you’re a technically strong, growth-minded engineer who thrives on solving complex problems and making a global impact, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities
In this role, you will:

  • Design and build resilient, scalable systems that enhance the reliability and availability of the Azure platform.
  • Apply distributed systems principles to solve complex engineering challenges with simplicity and clarity.
  • Collaborate across teams and disciplines to deliver end-to-end solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers.
  • Develop and maintain automation for monitoring, failover, and recovery processes.
  • Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response, and drive root cause analysis and long-term improvement.

Qualifications

  • Required Qualifications:

    • A bachelor's (or higher) degree in Computer Science or a related field.
    • 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C# or equivalent experience.
    • Experience in building, shipping, and operating reliable, distributed systems software.
    • Experience developing software hosted in Azure, AWS, or other similar cloud platforms.
    • Demonstrated problem-solving and debugging skills.
  • Other Requirements:

    • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements for this role.
  • Preferred Qualifications:

    • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field.
    • 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
    • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding.

Work Conditions

  • Up to 100% work from home
  • Travel: 0-25%
  • Employment type: Full-Time

Benefits

  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, please let us know.

Apply now

Jobs you might like   View all jobs

About Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is a leading technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. We specialize in software products like Windows OS, Microsoft 365, and hardware like Xbox and Surface PCs. Our mission is to empower every person and organization to achieve more through innovative technology.

Benefits at Microsoft

    • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans.
    • Hybrid workplace model for work-life balance.
    • Access to learning resources and professional development.