Senior Software Engineer
Technology, Data & Digital · Software & Web Development · Software Engineering · Data Engineering · DevOps
In short
Senior Software Engineer to join Microsoft 365 Core Data Access team in Redmond, Bay Area, or New York. Responsibilities include designing and delivering data-access services, writing high-quality code, and owning production health. Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 2+ years of technical experience, with a Master's Degree and 3+ years experience preferred.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and partner teams to understand customer needs and translate them into clear technical requirements.
- Lead the technical design and delivery of components across the team's data-access services: a query service that runs across sharded Microsoft 365 data, a blob service, and a gRPC service that exposes the core mailbox store.
- Evaluate trade-offs, identify dependencies and risks, and document decisions.
- Write, test, review, and maintain high-quality code, with attention to correctness, performance, security, and long-term maintainability.
- Design and evolve service APIs, including gRPC APIs, and C# and Rust client libraries that partner teams can adopt easily.
- Own the production health of your components through monitoring, safe deployments, and participation in the on-call rotation.
- Diagnose incidents, address root causes, and improve operational readiness.
- Use telemetry, profiling, and customer feedback to identify and deliver improvements in reliability, scalability, performance, and resource efficiency.
- Mentor engineers, provide constructive code and design reviews, and share knowledge to strengthen the team's engineering practices and technical judgment.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Desired Qualifications
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and system design principles.
- Experience building and operating large-scale distributed services in production, including on-call, incident response, safe deployment, and telemetry-driven diagnosis.
- Experience designing APIs, client libraries, or platforms used by other engineering teams, including RPC frameworks such as gRPC.
- Experience with storage systems, query engines, or other data-intensive services.
- Experience owning a component from design through operation, coordinating dependencies across teams, and mentoring engineers.
- Familiarity with security, authorization, privacy, and compliance in cloud services.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Skills
C#RustgRPCPythonC++JavaJavaScript
#Software Engineering#Data Access#Distributed Systems#Cloud Platform#gRPC#C##Rust#Microsoft 365#Copilot
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Company
MicrosoftJob Posted
4 days ago
Employment Type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Salary
US$119,800–234,700 / year
Experience Level
Senior
Locations
Bay Area, United States
New York City, United States
Redmond, United States
Qualification
Bachelor, Master
Applicants
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