Senior Software Engineer

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Microsoft Teams Core Services team, you will be building resilient, highly available, highly scalable services that leverage state of the art technologies to deliver the next gen collaboration and teamwork experiences.  

The Core Services team is responsible for the foundational services of Microsoft Teams serving billions of calls per day to power numerous Teams scenarios. It provides exciting opportunities in building resilient, highly available, and highly scalable services that meet the needs of an ever-growing user base of the fastest growing product in Microsoft's history. This is a unique opportunity to hone your system design and application architecture skills and get exposure to cutting edge technology stack (distributed systems, caching, .NET, Service Fabric, Azure), offering E2E ownership and broad scope to have a huge impact. 

This opportunity allows for up to 100% remote work within the U.S.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years development experience coding with C# and .Net 

  •  OR equivalent experience.

• 3+ years experience working on large-scale cloud applications. 
• 3+ years experience working on large-scale distributed systems. 

Preferred Qualifications  

• Experience working with Service Fabric or Kubernetes. 
• Analytical, problem solving and organizational skills. 
• Cross group collaboration, negotiation and communication skills. 
• Ability to deal with the ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and changing environment. 
• Experience working with M365 components like AAD, Exchange, Substrate, SharePoint.
• Drive to improve performance, availability and supportability of services.
• Drive to increase efficiencies through automation. 

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 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 $145,800 - $238,600 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

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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.

• Own design, development and dev ops of Tier 0 Teams Services to ensure high availability, scalability and resiliency
• Implement resiliency patterns like Circuit Breaker, Retry, Fallback, Bulkhead Isolation, Throttling, Stale Cache, among others
• Implement efficient patterns to call dependent services, leverage a distributed cache like Redis
• Build reusable libraries of services best practices for other teams to leverage
• Perform live site/dev ops engineering for services you own with top notch monitoring, dashboards, and technical support groups. 
• Embody our Culture and Values