Senior Software Engineer

Are you interested in working for one of the most exciting teams in Microsoft? Then look no further than Microsoft Teams Core Services. As a Senior Software Engineer 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. Passion in designing and building large-scale distributed systems.

The Teams 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, Azure, Kubernetes, Redis) and application architecture skills offering end to end ownership and broad scope to have a huge impact.

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.

• Own design, development and dev ops of Tier 0 Teams Services to ensure high availability, scalability and resiliency.
• Implement resiliency patterns like Circuit Breaker, Retry, Fallback, Bulkhead Isolation, Throttling, Stale Cache, among others.
• Implement efficient patterns to call dependent services, leverage a distributed cache like Redis.
• Build reusable libraries of services best practices for other teams to leverage.
• Perform live site/dev ops engineering for services you own with top notch monitoring, dashboards, and TSGs.
• Drive to increase efficiencies through automation.

Required Qualifications:

• 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#, .Net, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in development design patterns.
• Experience working on large scale enterprice applications.
• Excellent cross group collaboration, negotiation and communication skills.
• Ability to deal with the ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and changing environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master'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

• OR equivalent experience.

• Experience working with Service Fabric or Kubernetes a plus.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.