Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft 365 is a key part of the company’s cloud strategy and overall mission of empowering people and organizations to achieve more. As part of the customer journey to the cloud there are times when they need to reach out to seek help from Microsoft and that is where our team steps in to make sure that the customer self-help experience is the best in class. Our team is responsible for the admin/end-user experiences for self-help ecosystem starting from M365 admin portal, Windows and Office apps. Our team is full of people who have truly embraced a growth mindset and are not afraid to make mistakes, believes in doing and are obsessed about providing our customers the best experience possible. 
 
This is a rare opportunity to be part of the team that offers a combination of engineering and business challenges in a high impact area. 
 
We are looking for a motivated Senior Software Engineer with a solid technical background to help build highly scalable cloud services. You will play a key role in building the next generation platform and machine learning solutions that will empower Microsoft 365 users. You will be part of prototyping new ideas and scale solutions to millions of users while working in an agile and flexible environment. 
 
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. 

Responsibilities

You will work with the engineers in the team, and partner teams, to design and build systems, services, features and components for an AI based microservices and distributed architecture in Azure that includes: 

• Design, implementation, and testing cloud-based server-side code.
• Contributing to team-wide fundamentals/infrastructure investments.
• Collaborate with other Microsoft 365 engineering teams.
• Investigating and prototyping new technologies and frameworks.
• Writing and maintaining unit tests and automated integration tests.
• Defining and ensuring engineering quality. 

• Other

  • Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

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.

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: 

• Demonstrated coding and development skills with experience in C#.
• Experience and knowledge of data structures, algorithms and design patterns. 
• Passion for quality with high customer empathy.
• Compelling interpersonal and cross-group collaboration, communication skills and growth mindset.
• Experience with large scale, high availability services with a background in reliability, scalability and performance.
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