Senior Software Engineer

Teams is the fabric of how we communicate and collaborate, bringing together your chats, meetings, apps, files and much more. Whether you use it for work, school, or life, over 300M people rely on Teams every day to stay productive and connected with colleagues, partners customers, friends, and family. Our users expect Teams to have great fundamentals – to be fast, resource efficient and reliable, and the new Teams app is re-architected and optimized from the ground up to deliver on that promise. Our journey is just getting started with the new era of Teams.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join the Teams fundamentals organization and help drive multiple initiatives to make Teams best in class at reliability and resiliency. This includes innovating on how we intelligently use telemetry to measure reliability for our different audiences, how we use customer feedback, how we create diagnostics and analytics at scale to enable faster detection and debugging, how we collaborate with other teams to achieve end-end engineering excellence, and how we build resilient architectures.

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.

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.
• Experience leading cross-functional efforts to understand and implement user requirements.

Other Requirements:

This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,or Python
• Solid problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze and debug complex systems and design solutions.
• Experience with Microsoft Teams or similar collaboration platforms is highly desirable.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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 will accept applications for the role until June 5, 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.  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.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand user requirements for enhancing the reliability and resiliency of Microsoft Teams.
• Lead the identification of dependencies and contribute to the development of design documents aimed at improving the reliability and performance of Teams.
• Develop, optimize, and debug code to enhance the reliability, efficiency, and maintainability of Teams, ensuring a high return on investment.
• Utilize experience in product features to partner with project managers and drive project plans, release plans, and work items related to reliability initiatives.
• Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in reliability engineering to continuously improve the availability, efficiency, and performance of Microsoft Teams, while ensuring consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
• Embody our Culture and Values