Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky are the limit of thinking in a cloud-enabled world. 
 
We are the Azure Communication Services Team and we are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team!

Azure Communication Services (ACS) is a new Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS) offering, launched at Ignite 2020.  We power reliable, high-quality Short Message Service (SMS), Chat, Public Switched Telephony Network (PSTN), video calling and meeting services across Microsoft products.  Our service platform is well architected, globally distributed, highly scalable and built for the Cloud.   The World continues to scale towards remote work, learn and play.  Come find your purpose with us to connect the World.  We are grounded in our mission to enable all organizations and customers to achieve more in work and life. 

Our Team is growing fast and learning fast to enable the next generation of communication experiences.  We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing team! There are opportunities in different areas to help grow and mature our services and processes. We have a wide impact, social and business related. We are helping companies build communication products for various industries and use cases. Our team publishes billions of Events and Push Notifications required for the functioning of all the ACS modalities – Chat/SMS/Calling/PSTN. If you are passionate about distributed services, large scale and throughput and prioritize efficiency, this is a great position. You will be joining a great team, where diverse opinions are important and play a major role in our product and technology roadmaps, and where we care about your career. We welcome your mindset to make a great team. For more information see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/communication-services/.  

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. 

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. 

Responsibilities

We are looking for a candidate who is dedicated to designing and building high quality reliable Cloud Services.  As an engineer in our team, you’ll be working on changes to one or more services to meet the growing needs of Microsoft first party and second party solutions. In particular, for a given feature you’ll be expected to meet with stakeholders/PM to get the requirements, document the design and review within the team, implement the design, create unit tests on your changes, manage the flighting of the new feature, and implement additional monitoring and metrics as needed for the feature.  In short, you will truly own your feature from start to finish. You will be responsible for driving best practices and mentoring engineers.   

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. 
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. 
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). 
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders