Senior Software Engineer

Share job

Microsoft’s Health and Life Sciences (HLS) team is dedicated to empowering healthcare organizations to achieve their goals and improve patient care. The HLS Platform team aims to create an efficient and connected healthcare ecosystem built on the Microsoft Cloud, empowering everyone across the healthcare journey to collaborate, communicate, and innovate together to provide better experiences for clinicians, staff, and patients.

Our team has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer on the HLS AI Core Platform team, pioneering next-generation Data & AI workloads and Copilots. Our mission is to provide robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure to support and elevate Microsoft’s cutting-edge technologies in the healthcare and life sciences domain.

We are dedicated to empowering our customers to achieve more by delivering high-quality, reliable services through standardized architecture and infrastructure. Our diverse portfolio spans all facets of Microsoft's cloud ecosystem, including advanced projects in containerization, security, large-scale distributed systems, and more.

Our team is a supportive and inclusive organization that fosters continuous learning and development. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who will leverage their service expertise and passion for technical excellence to make a substantial impact. We value collaboration, craftsmanship, and a growth mindset to deliver elegant solutions to complex problems.

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.

#Health&LifeScience #hlsdp #hls

Required 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.
• 1+ year(s) experience building or operating distributed systems or cloud services in production environments.

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/Additional Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science
  • OR related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes networking configurations and security best practices.
• Experience building and operating large-scale Kubernetes environments.
• Understanding of modern software and systems architectures, including load-balancing, queueing, caching, distributed systems failure modes, and microservices.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $114,400 - CAD $203,900 per year.

Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 17th, 2025

• We are looking for individuals who are passionate about working across all aspects of high-throughput, multi-tenant services. You should have the ability to design components thoughtfully, handle errors effectively, and write clean, well-structured code with comprehensive tests and strong maintainability.
• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
• Embody our culture and values