Senior Software Engineer

Building and running services at scale for Microsoft 365 for hundreds of million consumer and enterprise users is a lot of fun and rewarding. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us do just that to power and deliver on IC3 mission. This opportunity will allow you to make a broad positive impact across many critical IC3 domains such as chat, audio/video calling, meetings, service and data engineering, and service management. 

We want you because you have an insatiable passion for technology, your constant intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn, your ability to communicate well in a team environment, your desire to make our team better with your contributions and of course your ability to deliver the right results at the right time.

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

We are looking for experienced backend engineers who are passionate about building large scale distributed systems. As a part of the IC3 team in India, you will be: 

• Architecting, designing and implementing services that enable richer scenarios for our customers.  
• Working on distributed micro-services built on Azure compute with emphasis on service excellence and solid devOps practices.
• Building, maintaining and enhancing large scale distributed systems that are able to deal with large amounts of data with tight availability, reliability, and latency constraints. 

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:

• 7+ years technical engineering experience with any object-oriented coding languages including, but not limited to C++, C#, Java or Python.
• 5+ years of professional experience with designing, developing, and shipping highly reliable distributed systems and services.
• Solid understanding of Service-Oriented Architecture principles and operations.
• Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and/or application frameworks.
• Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.
• Excellent analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.
• Good communication skills and cross group collaboration.