# Senior Software Engineer - Networking

OverviewWould you like to help build the networking foundation that powers Windows, Azure, and Windows Server? Our team develops core networking and TCP/IP and QUIC technologies that provide reliable, secure, and high-performance connectivity to more than one billion monthly active users. As part of our team, you will architect, design, and implement features in the Windows networking stack. You will work on TCP/IP, transport and routing protocols, packet processing, connection management, performance, reliability, and network security. You will analyze complex networking behavior using packet captures, telemetry, tracing, and protocol-level diagnostics. You will also help evolve standards-based protocols, collaborate with networking experts across Microsoft and the industry, and work with standards bodies such as the IETF. This Senior Software Engineer role offers the opportunity within the Windows CoreOS Networking Team to solve challenging systems problems and advance protocols for modern and post-quantum security requirements. At Microsoft, our mission-to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more-guides how we partner with customers to deliver tr

- **Id**: 3848768
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-senior-software-engineer-networking-2>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Redmond, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-30T23:33:48Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T08:55:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 7
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4438
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 456
- **Ghost share**: 0.007
- **Stale share**: 0.59
- **Repost share**: 0.039
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 119800
- **Max**: 234700
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 234700

## Technologies

- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no
- **Windows Server** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 7

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T01:44:38Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,957 · green card filings: 2,767; Filings 12m: 6957

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 7
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 234700
- **Is top pay**: yes

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