Come build community, explore your passions, and drive innovation with Azure Edge. Our team enables Microsoft products and services to operate across connected, disconnected, regulated, and sovereign environments, where compliance, regional availability, and release readiness directly affect customer adoption and market access. You will help shape the engineering capabilities that enable customers across government, defense, critical infrastructure, energy, healthcare, and sovereign cloud markets to deploy and operate Microsoft technology with confidence.
In this role, you will own a broad portfolio spanning product compliance, Azure region expansion, and product release management. You will independently translate complex regulatory and market requirements into actionable engineering requirements, product roadmaps, release criteria, and cross-team execution plans across Azure Edge products and dependent Azure services. This opportunity will allow you to deepen your expertise in product compliance, global cloud expansion, release governance, and AI-enabled engineering systems while influencing product decisions across a diverse technical portfolio.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.
Responsibilities
- You will translate regulatory, cybersecurity, and market-access obligations into clear engineering requirements, implementation plans, and product roadmaps across Azure Edge products and services.
- Drive compliance readiness for current and emerging requirements, partnering with engineering, product, security, legal, and broader Azure compliance teams to identify gaps, establish ownership, and drive remediation.
- Drive Azure region expansion readiness by coordinating product dependencies, engineering requirements, and partner-team commitments needed to enable predictable deployment into new regions.
- Own product release management mechanisms, including release readiness, cross-team dependencies, risk identification, decision criteria, and stakeholder visibility.
- Contribute domain expertise, requirements, and validation scenarios to AI-enabled compliance capabilities that improve how regulatory obligations are mapped to engineering actions and supporting evidence.
- Establish scalable operating mechanisms, metrics, roadmaps, and documentation that improve execution across compliance, regional expansion, and release management as the Azure Edge portfolio grows.
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.
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:
- 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.
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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.
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