Senior Software Engineer

Come build community, solve exciting problems, and do your best work. Within the Office Product Group, the Fluid team architects and powers a high-scale platform that enables seamless real-time collaboration, including between humans and AI. By partnering closely with product teams, the Fluid team helps deliver innovative M365 collaborative experiences—including in M365 Copilot Hub, Loop, and Word—that serve hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Our cutting-edge technology creates the foundation for intuitive products where ideas flow naturally between people and intelligent systems.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Fluid team, you will help build the foundation for transformative M365 collaborative experiences. You will be empowered to own your areas end-to-end, from the architecture stage to ensuring our shipped solutions meet our customer's needs. You will collaborate deeply across disciplines and teams to deliver results that delight customers, learning constantly while solving tough technical challenges. This opportunity will allow you to grow as a technical leader, learn from other engineers, and improve your partner collaboration skills.

Our organization prioritizes a collaborative and results-driven team culture. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be expected to help foster that culture by mentoring other engineers, solving problems collaboratively, working closely with a variety of partner teams, and valuing the different ways people can contribute to our team's goals.

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

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine requirements for new framework features.
• Leads the technical design processes for our new features and customer solutions.
• Engages directly with customer teams to ensure the success of our shipped solutions.
• Mentors other engineers on the team and in the broader organization.
• Ensures quality standards on the team through code reviews, architecture reviews, and active pair programming sessions.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Reviews current developments and proactively seeks new knowledge to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products, while driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
• Embody the Microsoft culture and values .

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 TypeScript, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in web development (front-end and/or back-end).

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:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, TypeScript, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to TypeScript, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in web development, including JavaScript/TypeScript and web frameworks.
• Experience working on distributed systems and/or high-performance systems.
• Experience working with Large Language Models (LLM) APIs & integrations.
• Experience collaborating closely with customer teams.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 15, 2025.

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.

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