Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Teams is the new chat-based application in Office 365. It's a hub for teamwork, giving teams instant access to everything they need right in Office 365. Microsoft Teams is the canvas that keeps all your content, tools, people, and conversations together in one place. It is the hottest product at Microsoft and we’re on course to disrupt the team collaboration space. You will also have the opportunity to work on generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Model (LLM), and world class AI stack that power Team’s Copilot and other Team’s AI product. You will be part of a team that is at the forefront of AI innovation and research, and that leverages the latest advances in deep learning, natural language processing, and conversational AI. 

In the Messaging Services team, we are continuously evolving our messaging micro-services to support new messaging features while maintaining a high performance, scalable and cost-effective eco-system. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who can help us build revolutionary, robust and scalable back-end services. This is a unique opportunity to hone your system design skills, and will give you exposure to cutting edge technology stack (.NET Core, Typescript, Service Fabric, Redis, Azure Cosmos DB) as well as cross-org collaboration opportunities. You will have end to end (E2E) ownership and make huge impact in this critical area. 

As a team we’re proud of what we build and how we build it. We run lean, obsess about customers and use an evidence-based approach to decision making. We have live-site first, metrics-driven culture that prevents us from accumulating debt and necessity to put out fires on daily basis. You will be in a position that carries a ton of responsibility and provides opportunities to impact customers’ satisfaction and grow the business exponentially. 

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.
• 4+ year experience in large-scale distributed systems, client-server architectures, and distributed database systems. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Passion for delivering high-quality, resilient, large scale services. 
• Passionate about solving challenging problems. 
• Cross team/organization collaboration skills.
• Experience working with Service Fabric or Kubernetes.
• Experience working with M365 components like Azure Active Directory (AAD), Exchange, Substrate, SharePoint a plus, CosmosDB, Redis, streaming. 
• 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 $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 September 22, 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.

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• As part of the Messaging Services engineering team, you will:
  • design, develop, and maintain high scale services that form the backbone of Microsoft Teams. 
  • Own and operate services of massive scale and importance. 
  • Apply state-of-the-art techniques in deep learning, natural language processing, and conversational AI to build and improve the AI capabilities of Microsoft Teams. 
  • Experiment, prototype, and evaluate new ideas and approaches for AI-powered messaging features. 
  • Work closely with other AI teams across Microsoft to leverage and share best practices and resources. 
• You are expected to dive deep into Azure technologies and distributed database systems. You will collaborate with partners, internal and external to Microsoft Teams organization, in order to design and build features that drive growth in our user base. We have numerous partners and thus, collaboration skills are required. 
• As you develop said features to delight our customers, you are expected to:
  • always keep availability, reliability, performance and scalability in mind. We never compromise on these fundamentals. 
  • influence and create new designs, architectures, standards and methods for large-scale distributed systems. 
  • build reusable libraries of services best practices for other teams to leverage.

Embody our Culture and Values