Sr. Software Engineer - Windows 365
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 26, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 20, 2026. Microsoft scores B on the Alion truth index.
Windows Cloud Experiences (WCX) is developing a best-in-class virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution to enable millions of customers to work with physical and virtual PCs. WCX is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) organization, which is recognized as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Desktop as a Service (DaaS) for last 3 years. With the momentum from customers transitioning to cloud-based solutions, Windows 365 and AVD have become a billion-dollar business and continue to experience rapid growth. At its core, W365 and AVD provide customers with a modern, elastic, cloud-based Windows experience that feels like local.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who’s excited to explore new technologies, write elegant and robust code, and drive engineering excellence across the stack to join the team that builds key technologies for our data platform infrastructure.
In this role, you’ll contribute to rapid, iterative releases and have the opportunity to innovate across multiple areas of our product, from infrastructure to data engineering and operations.
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.
Responsibilities
As a Senior Software Engineer in our team, you will get an amazing opportunity to contribute to both business and technology. You will be a key member of our engineering team, drive full end to end engineering cycle of critical scenario, collaborate with internal partner teams and plan, design, implement and live site support with high quality.
In this role you will:
- Design, build, and maintain robust pipelines for telemetry, product usage, and experimentation data.
- Own orchestration, monitoring, and DevOps for critical service workflows.
- Design data models and APIs that enable Copilot to reason about user context, preferences, and history.
- Build real-time and batch personalization engines that adapt Copilot’s behavior.
- Collaborate with privacy, security, and responsible AI teams to ensure personalization is safe, transparent, and user controlled.
- Optimize for performance, reliability, and cost across diverse workloads and geographies.
- Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code.
- Find a path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into the hands of users quickly and iteratively.
- Enjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle.
- Embody our Culture and Values.
Qualifications
Required/Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Additional or preferred qualifications
Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Science or other technical field.
- 5+ years of software engineering experience building scalable services and infrastructure on top of cloud infrastructure like Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Excellent technical design skills and proven ability to drive large scale system designs for commercial projects or products.
- Experience and involvement with DevOps.
- Fluent English communication skill.
- Experience with large scale cloud service.
- Ambitious, self-motivated.
- Agile, can-do attitude and great at dealing with ambiguity.
- Solid coding, debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Solid knowledge of object-oriented programming language paradigms.
- Ability to generate clarity in ambiguous situations.
- Ability to quickly ramp up, understand complex problems, and create solutions across many products.
- Great communication skills to collaborate cross-group and work effectively within the team.
- Expertise in developing large scale services.
- Experience monitoring system performance, diagnosing and resolving issues, and implementing improvements to ensure reliability and a seamless user experience.
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.