Software development jobs in the United States (54,362 jobs)

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Counted Nov 7, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 54,362
Employers: 10,228

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payUSD / year: $140,487Across 11,347 listings
Average starting payUSD / hour: $57.06Across 2,449 listings
Average starting payUSD / month: $12,015Across 65 listings
Average starting payCAD / year: $133,344Across 47 listings
Average starting payUSD / week: $2,042Across 11 listings

Employer-advertised starting pay, not employee salaries. Currencies and pay periods stay separate.

Where work happens

Remote: 8%4,576 listings
Hybrid: 7%3,660 listings
On-site: 16%8,798 listings

Not specified: 69% (37,328 listings)

Employers hiring include Akamai Technologies, Inc. (779), Lockheed Martin (703), Salesforce.com (609).

Sources & calculation notes

These figures describe the listings on this role page at the date shown, not the whole job market. Listings can change.

Employer-listed minimums from at least 10 listings per currency and pay period. These are advertised starting amounts, not employee salaries. Jobs without a minimum and unusual amounts are excluded.

Hybrid and on-site classifications may be inferred from descriptions. Check the original ad. How we count

Software development jobs in the United States

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Software Engineer II
Microsoft
CA · Mountain View, CA · Mountain View
- $102,100 to $219,200 USD / year
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Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform
Microsoft
WA · Redmond, WA · Redmond
- $119,800 to $261,000 USD / year
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Associate Full Stack Developer
Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)
Jacksonville, FL
We are seeking a Full Stack Developer I to join our innovative development team. In this role, you will contribute to building and modernizing the applicat
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Apps Dev Intmd Programmer Analyst - C11 - TAMPA
Citigroup
Tampa, FL
The Applications Development Intermediate Programmer Analyst is an intermediate level position responsible for participation in the establishment and implementation of new or revised…
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Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft
WA · Redmond, WA · Redmond
- $142,800 to $304,200 USD / year
We are looking to welcome a Principal Software Engineer to a group of innovative, energetic and diverse engineers on the CoPilot Runtime Platform team, which is the engineering organization…
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Apps Dev Intmd Programmer Analyst - C11 - TAMPA
Citigroup
Tampa, FL
The Applications Development Intermediate Programmer Analyst is an intermediate level position responsible for participation in the establishment and implementation of new or revised…
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Applications Development Sr Programmer Analyst - AVP
Citigroup
Tampa, FL
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Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Playout
NBC Universal
Miami, FL
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Cloud Engineer
Eliassen Group
Tallahassee, FL
- $70 to $88 USD / hour
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Senior Software Engineer
Eliassen Group
Orlando, FL
- $86.96 to $90.31 USD / hour
Our client seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and support integrations for an AI-enabled employee assistant that helps users find answers, request services, and complete
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Software Engineer II - CTJ - TS/SCI
Microsoft
VA · WA · Reston, VA · Redmond, WA · Reston · Redmond
- $102,100 to $219,200 USD / year
Microsoft has an exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer in the Cloud+AI Silver Team. This team will be responsible for deploying and operating a Secure Work Area, including the…
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Principal Software Engineer - AI Experiences, Advertising
Microsoft
CA · WA · Mountain View, CA · Redmond, WA · Mountain View · Redmond
- $142,800 to $304,200 USD / year
If you're a Principal Software Engineer passionate about AI innovation, Copilot experiences, and building systems that empower thousands of sellers a
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Lead Backend Engineer
Gardens Interactive
Remote, United States
- $196,000 to $203,000 USD / year
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Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
WA · CA · Redmond, WA · Mountain View, CA · Redmond · Mountain View
- $119,800 to $261,000 USD / year
If you’re a Senior Software Engineer passionate about AI innovation, Copilot experiences, and building systems that empower thousands of sellers and
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Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft
WA · NY · CA · Redmond, WA · Mountain View, CA · Sunnyvale, CA · Redmond · New York · Mountain View · Sunnyvale
- $142,800 to $304,200 USD / year
As a Principal Software Engineer, on the Substrate Application Platform team, you will help build the next generation platform for internal and external developers and agents to access M365…
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Principal Software Engineer - Cloud Infrastructure & AI Systems
Microsoft
WA · TX · OR · CA · NC · Redmond, WA · Austin, TX · Hillsboro, OR · Mountain View, CA · Raleigh, NC · Redmond · Austin · Hillsboro · Mountain View · Raleigh
- $142,800 to $304,200 USD / year
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Principal Software Engineer
Microsoft
United States
- $165,600 to $331,200 USD / year
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Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
WA · GA · Redmond, WA · Atlanta, GA · Redmond · Atlanta
- $119,800 to $261,000 USD / year
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Senior Software Engineer - Networking
Microsoft
WA · Redmond, WA · Redmond
- $119,800 to $261,000 USD / year
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*Child* Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
United States
- $119,800 to $261,000 USD / year
We are the Azure Software Load Balancer team, a vital part of the Azure Core Networking team, tasked with designing, building, and operating critical network offerings that set us apart…
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Lead Software Engineer - City
OKC
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK · Oklahoma City, OK
- $39.52 to $60.39 USD / hour
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Software Configuration Analyst
Lockheed Martin
Kirtland AFB, NM
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Cloud Engineer
Eliassen Group
Santa Fe, NM
- $70 to $88 USD / hour
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Cloud Engineer
Maximus
Providence, RI
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Cloud Engineer
Eliassen Group
Providence, RI
- $70 to $88 USD / hour

Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer

United States

$119,800 to $261,000 USD / year

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Job details

Pay: $119,800 to $261,000 USD / year
Apply by: May 1, 2027
Posting language: English
Posted: Nov 2, 2026

Original job description

Overview

The Azure Cloud Native Platform organization builds the distributed systems that power virtual machines and large-scale applications across Microsoft Azure. These systems operate at global scale and provide customers with reliable, elastic, and efficient access to compute capacity.

The Azure Compute Fleet team is building a platform that helps customers provision and manage compute capacity across virtual machine sizes, availability zones, pricing models, and Azure regions. Azure Compute Fleet can distribute workloads across multiple regions, helping customers reduce their dependency on any single region, improve capacity resiliency, and deploy compute where it is available. Multi-Region Compute Fleet supports scenarios such as stateless services, large batch jobs, data processing, and continuous integration workloads.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the design and development of a new solution that orchestrates Virtual Machine Scale Sets across Azure regions. The solution will help applications move beyond region-specific infrastructure by coordinating capacity, placement, scaling, and lifecycle operations across multiple scale sets and regions.

You will work on complex distributed-systems problems involving regional capacity constraints, fault isolation, control-plane reliability, asynchronous orchestration, and safe recovery from partial failures. You will partner with teams across Azure Compute, networking, capacity management, and application platforms to define the architecture and deliver the solution incrementally.

This role provides an opportunity to build a foundational Azure capability that helps applications remain available and continue to scale when a region experiences capacity constraints or service disruption. 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

Lead the design and development of Azure Compute Fleet capabilities that orchestrate Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) across multiple Azure regions, improving capacity resiliency and reducing regional dependencies for customer applications.
Design distributed control-plane services, APIs, and orchestration workflows for capacity placement, scaling, failover, and lifecycle management of large-scale compute resources across regions.
Drive adoption of AI and Agentic AI across engineering workflows by reimagining existing processes, automating operational tasks, improving diagnostics, accelerating root-cause analysis, and increasing engineering productivity through intelligent agents.
Partner with teams across Azure Compute, Capacity, Networking, and Platform Services to define technical strategy, influence architecture decisions, and deliver end-to-end customer solutions.
Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), participating in on-call rotations, leading live-site mitigation efforts, and driving improvements in reliability, observability, performance, and operational excellence.

Qualifications

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.

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.
4+ years of experience of designing, building and shipping high quality system software.
Experience building highly available and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
Experience leveraging AI, machine learning, large language models, or Agentic AI systems to improve engineering productivity, service operations, diagnostics, or customer experiences.
Experience building cloud services, platform infrastructure, control-plane systems, or highly available backend services operating at hyperscale.

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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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