Senior Software Engineer

We’re looking for talented and diverse engineers to join our team and help us build the next generation of communications powered by digital technology. 

Who are we?  

We are the Azure Communication Services Team. Azure Communication Services (ACS) is a Communication Platform as a Service offering, launched at Ignite 2020. We empower developers to augment their existing solutions or build new ones that allow people around the world to communicate using reliable and high-quality SMS, Chat, WhatsApp, PSTN, Audio/Video calling, Rooms, and other communication services. 

Our service platform is well architected, globally distributed, highly scalable and built for the Cloud.  The world continues to scale towards remote work, learn and play.  Come find your purpose with us to connect the world.  We are grounded in our mission to enable all organizations and customers to achieve more in work and life. Our Team is growing fast and learning fast to enable the next generation of communication experiences.  We need talented candidates like you across all walks of life and experiences.  Don't come just to join a great team.  Come with the mindset to make a great team and we can be the career home you are looking for. For more information see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/communication-services/. 

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer  candidate who is passionate about designing and building high quality reliable Cloud Services.  As an engineer in our team, you’ll be working on changes to one or more services to meet the growing needs of Microsoft first party and second party solutions. In particular, for a given feature you’ll be expected to meet with stakeholders to get the requirements, document the design and review within the team, implement the design, create unit tests on your changes, manage the flighting of the new feature, and implement additional monitoring and metrics as needed for the feature.  In short, you will truly own your feature from start to finish. As a leader in our team, you will be responsible for driving best practices and mentoring fellow engineers. 

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.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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.
• 4+ years of software design and development experience with backend services. 

Preferred Qualfications:

• Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.  
• Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks.  
• Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.  
• Analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.  
• Commitment to building highly scalable, highly reliable services.  
• Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes.  

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $108,100 - CAD $199,700 per year. Find additional pay information here: 

https://careers.microsoft.om/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html 

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 12, 2024

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form. 

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work. 

• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions.  
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.  
• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.  
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.  
• Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.  
• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.  
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.  
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach. 
• Other: Embody our Culture and Values