Senior Software Engineer

<p><span>Are you interested in working for one of the most exciting teams in Microsoft? Then look no further than 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.</span></p><p> </p><p><span>The Core Services team is responsible for the foundational services of Microsoft Teams spanning Middle Tier, Auth, Gateway, Storage, Infra among others. 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 your exposure to cutting edge technology stack (.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Service Fabric, Redis) and application architecture skills offering E2E ownership and broad scope to have a huge impact.</span></p><p> </p><p><span>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.</span></p> <h3>Responsibilities</h3> <ul><li><span>Own design, development and dev ops of Tier 0 Teams Services to ensure high availability, scalability and resiliency.</span></li><li><span>Architect Teams’ microservices for the best performance, operational and COGS efficiencies.</span></li><li><span>Pioneer adoption of resiliency patterns like Circuit Breaker, Retry, Fallback, Bulkhead Isolation, Throttling, Stale Cache, among others.</span></li><li><span>Design, build and advocate reusable libraries of services best practices.</span></li><li><span>Lead live site/dev ops engineering for services you own with top notch monitoring, dashboards, and TSGs.</span></li></ul> <h3>Qualifications</h3> <p><span><strong>Required Qualifications:</strong></span></p><ul><li><span>Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python</span><ul><li><span>OR equivalent experience.</span></li></ul></li><li><span>Experience working on large scale cloud applications</span></li></ul><p><span><strong>Preferred Qualifications:</strong></span></p><ul><li><span>Solid analytical and problem solving and organizational skills.</span></li><li><span>Excellent cross group collaboration, negotiation and communication skills.</span></li><li><span>Ability to deal with the ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and changing environment.</span></li><li><span>Passion in designing and building very large-scale distributed systems.</span></li><li><span>Experience working with Service Fabric or Kubernetes.</span></li><li><span>Experience working with M365 components like AAD, Exchange, Substrate, SharePoint.</span></li><li><span>Drive to improve performance, availability and supportability of services.</span></li><li><span>Drive to increase efficiencies through automation.</span></li></ul><p><span><strong>Other Requirements:</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span>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:</span></p><ul><li><span><strong>Microsoft Cloud Background Check:</strong> This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.</span></li></ul><p><span>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 <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/accommodationrequest" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Accommodation request form</a>.</span></p><p> </p><p><span>Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.</span></p>