Do you want to work on a product that is used by more than 50 million people around the world a day and growing rapidly? 

  

Do you take an engineering driven approach to solve operations related problems? 

  Do you care deeply about how software is constructed and designed with a focus of supporting production scale? Do you want to be part of a fun-loving, inclusive, dedicated, and world-class team that continuously pushes the boundary of service and engineering excellence? 

  Do you love meaningful work that can advance your career? 

  The Office for the Web team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about working on high-scale geo-distributed services. These services power the infrastructure behind the Office web applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and Visio that are part of the Office 365 suite. 

  

You will help design, build, and run all aspects of these high scale services including monitoring, scalability, and reliability. We are gearing up to modernize our infrastructure services to achieve world class scalability, security,  performance, and reliability. We seek to build on the service excellence principles to understand distributed systems and high-scale services. We are taking a holistic approach across the infrastructure stack, including request routing, storage, compute, and networking, seeking to understand the entire customer. 

  

If you want hands-on experience in architecting, designing, building, and running a global service in the M365 and Azure ecosystem, this is the role for you! 

The Office for the Web team is open to both relocation or 100% remote employment options for engineers not local to our Redmond, WA office location.

Responsibilities

Your key responsibilities will include the following:  

• Own and deliver complete features, including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, shipping, and production on call rotation 

• Work closely with other disciplines to shape the service infrastructure and product 
• Perform duties of feature lead of team of 2-4 engineers 
• Guide, mentor, and coach junior engineers on the team 
• Demonstrate the ability to learn quickly, be self-directed, and work well with other people 
• Foster a culture of being agile, innovative, team-oriented, and customer-focused 

• Contributing to team-wide fundamentals/infrastructure investments  
•  Investigating and prototyping new technologies and frameworks   
• Writing and maintaining unit tests and automated integration tests   

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• 5+ years of object-oriented software engineer experience (C#, C/C++, or Java) 

• 3+ years of experience developing web services and managing production grade services 
• 2+ years of software engineering experience testing, deploying, supporting large scale services on any of the following environments (Azure, AWS, or similar) 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 1+ years of experience in software architecture and design 
• Experience with tech deep dives into networking, service design, OS, and storage systems 

• Passion for shaping strategy around infrastructure and service reliability with leadership 
• Ability to analyze and diagnose service health issues on a global scale 
• Strong debugging, testing/validation, and analytics skills 
• Experience in a DevOps culture supporting live sites 

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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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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.