Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Teams is core to Microsoft's vision for intelligent communications and productivity in the modern workplace. We are fast becoming the hub for teamwork in Microsoft 365 with hundreds of thousands of organizations and tens of millions of users worldwide using Teams. Microsoft Teams now has 300M+ daily users, cementing it as the fastest-growing business application in Microsoft history.

Join the Release Infrastructure team as a Senior Software Engineer and help build the backbone that enables thousands of Teams developers to ship features to millions of users worldwide. You'll partner with release teams to drive innovation, accelerating delivery without compromising quality. You'll work with large-scale systems, apply industry-leading practices, and leverage AI to push boundaries. In this role, your voice matters – together with our partners you'll help define our infrastructure products and influence priorities that shape the future of Teams.

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.

• Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drive identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Create, implements, optimizes, debug, refactor, and reuse code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

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#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience partnering with engineering and non-engineering teams in a collaborative environment.
• Demonstrated ability to lead software projects through the full lifecycle, from planning to post-launch monitoring.
  
• Expertise in building and maintaining large-scale microservice-oriented architectures and user-facing applications.
  
• Proficiency with modern cloud platforms and infrastructure.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Hands-on experience with Azure cloud infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Strong programming skills in C#, TypeScript/JavaScript, and Python.
• Experience designing software systems through collaboration and clear technical documentation.
• Proven ability to thrive in multi-national, culturally diverse environments.

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 Accommodation request form.

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