Senior Software Engineer - Services

In Teams Premium Services, we deliver exceptional Microsoft Teams experiences like AI-powered meetings and recaps, advanced meeting personalization for both 2D and Immersive scenarios, meeting protections, and event authoring.

Especially in the era of hybrid work, Microsoft Teams is mission critical for small and large institutions worldwide. It is a versatile collaboration platform that integrates chat, video meetings, file storage, and apps. The Teams Premium Services team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer Services with a bias for action to help us build resilient, highly available, and scalable services for Microsoft's fastest-growing product. It's a fantastic opportunity to enhance your skills in system design, cross-team collaboration, and modern technologies like .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Azure, Kubernetes, and Redis. We offer end-to-end ownership and a broad scope to make a significant impact on millions of users at home, at school, and at work.

We embrace inclusivity, diverse ideas, and collaboration. We use empathy, trust, and ownership to drive our team culture and deliver products in a quick and iterative manner.

Help us drive & deliver the mission of being the best-in-class meetings and events solution.

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.

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#, Java or JavaScript 
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ year of experience supporting live services, i.e. troubleshooting, and triaging on a rotational, on-call basis.
• 2+ years experience in .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and Azure.

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:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 6+ years of software engineering experience shipping high quality software to customers using coding languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Rust
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Well-developed problem-solving and analytical skills with a solid understanding of the entire software development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills with the ability to deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment. 
• Passion in designing and building large-scale services. 
• 4+ years experience in .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Azure, Kubernetes, Redis

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $108,100 - CAD $199,700 per year.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 31, 2025.

• Mentor and grow engineers on the team.
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to ascertain user requirements for specific features.
• Assist in identifying dependencies and developing design documents for a product area with minimal oversight.
• Design, implement, extend, and support new and existing products, services, or features, utilizing clean, reusable code.
• Participate in breaking down larger tasks into smaller work items and provide accurate estimations.
• Support production services on a rotational, on-call basis.
• Design and implement improvements to our services’ engineering excellence, security, and compliance.
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