Senior Software Engineer

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.

Our culture embraces a growth mindset, inspires excellence, and encourages teams and leaders to bring their best each day. As a result, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.   

The M365 powers billions of real-time customers in products across the Microsoft ecosystem and third-party apps. Our services are the foundation for reliable and high-quality audio/video calls, meetings, and messaging on desktop, mobile, web, and embedded endpoints. Our mission is to make conversations more intelligent, creating best-in-class productivity tools for the modern workplace with the promise that every call, meeting, or chat makes the next one better. 

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.
• Demonstrated problem-solving and debugging skills.  
• Knowledge of distributed systems and a strong grasp of the design principles for highly scalable, highly available systems.  
• Solid English verbal and written communication skills. 

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:

• Experienced with microservice architecture, aware of the advantages and disadvantages.  
• Skilled in working with and setting up Kubernetes clusters in commercial environments.  
• Familiarity with Azure cloud and its various computing and non-computing services. 

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.

#M365CORE

As a senior software development engineer in the team, you will have the chance to work on projects that will bring entire M365 to the next level, including but not limited to creating infrastructure-as-code and unified buildout automation to enable M365 services efficiently setup in the new regional cloud that Microsoft offers; enhancing the resiliency of M365 services by implementing distributed cloud service best practice and patterns; improving the monitoring capabilities by creating unified probes, telemetry and metrics; increasing the security of M365 services by adopting multiple advanced security solutions. Working on M365 you will easily see the huge impact which benefits billions of organizations and users by delivering your technical solutions.