Senior Software Architect

Overview

The Microsoft Device Ecosystem Platform (MDEP) team is building a device operating system platform that supports a broad ecosystem of devices, experiences, and cloud-connected services.

We are seeking a Senior Software Architect to define the technical architecture and long-term direction of MDEP across the full device platform stack. This role extends beyond expertise in any single operating system or technology. The architect will shape how modern device operating systems are designed, secured, serviced, extended, and connected to cloud services at scale.

We are looking for candidates that bring backgrounds in one of the following areas: embedded, device operating systems, open-source platforms, distributed systems, Microsoft Azure, or cloud services, which combines deep expertise in several areas with the architectural breadth to work effectively across the rest of the stack.

This role offers the opportunity to shape MDEP as an end-to-end device OS platform—from the operating system and hardware boundary through platform services, application frameworks, security, manageability, developer experiences, and cloud integration.

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

• Define and evolve the long-term architecture of the MDEP device OS platform.
• Drive architectural decisions across the operating system, platform services, device capabilities, security, manageability, application platform, and cloud-connected experiences.
• Apply systems thinking across kernel and OS fundamentals, hardware abstraction, system services, application frameworks, networking, identity, security, device management, telemetry, and cloud services.
• Translate architectural direction into practical designs that engineering teams can implement, operate, service, and evolve.
• Ensure that device architecture and Azure-based services form a coherent end-to-end platform.
• Provide technical leadership through design reviews, technical discussions, prototypes, and written specifications.
• Engage internal and external partners to understand requirements and support a diverse device and solution ecosystem.
• Balance near-term product requirements with the long-term integrity and evolution of the platform.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND proven technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Previous experience with Linux-based Operating systems architecture, embedded Linux, or other open-source operating system platforms.
• Experience with Cloud architecture, Device to Cloud architectures and Distributed Systems.
• Experience with Embedded systems, device platforms, hardware/software interfaces, device drivers, firmware, or hardware abstraction layers.
• Worked on Device-management and fleet-scale services, including enrollment, policy, software deployment, health monitoring, and lifecycle operations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Designing or evolving complex platform software used by multiple products, applications, or engineering organizations.
• Open-source software architecture, upstream projects, dependency management, and product engineering on open-source foundations.
• Proven experience with Embedded systems, device platforms, hardware/software interfaces, device drivers, firmware, or hardware abstraction layers.
• Telemetry and observability architectures that connect device signals to cloud monitoring, diagnostics, analytics, and operational workflows.
• Containers, virtualization, isolation technologies, or workload management.
• Security architecture spanning devices, operating systems, identity, networking, services, and cloud infrastructure.
• Linux kernel, system-level Linux development, or Linux distribution engineering.
• Android platform architecture, Android Open Source Project (AOSP), Android framework, hardware abstraction layers, system services, or Android security architecture.
• Azure services for connected devices, identity, management, telemetry, or distributed systems.
• Device security, secure boot, attestation, trusted computing, identity, and platform security.
• Over-the-air updates, OS servicing, release engineering, and long-lived device lifecycle management.
• Developer platforms, SDKs, APIs, application models, and extensibility architectures.

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.

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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Romania is lei 263,600.00 - lei 434,000.00 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

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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.

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