Senior Software Engineer

Are you interested in working for one of the most exciting product groups in Microsoft? Look no further than Microsoft Teams Developer Platform. You will be building solutions that leverage state-of-the-art technologies to deliver the next evolution in collaboration and teamwork.   

Microsoft Teams Developer Platform provides exciting opportunities in building resilient, highly scalable services for Microsoft Teams Graph APIs and great Microsoft Teams Developer Experience that meet the needs of an ever-growing user and developer base of the fastest growing product in Microsoft's history. This is a unique opportunity to hone your systems design, hyperscale services, public API platform design, exposure to cutting edge technology stack (.NET Core, Kubernetes, Redis, Azure Cosmos DB) and application architecture skills offering E2E ownership and broad scope to have a huge impact.  

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

• Implement efficient patterns to call dependent services, leverage a distributed cache like Redis.
• Implement high availability, resiliency patterns like Circuit Breaker, Retry, Fallback, Bulkhead Isolation, Throttling among others.
• Own and operate services of massive scale.
• Reuse existing open-source libraries and build new libraries of services and best practices for other teams to leverage. 
• Perform live site/dev ops engineering for services with top notch monitoring, dashboards, and troubleshooting guides.

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.
• 4+ years of C# and .NET software development experience
• 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:

• 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, C, C++, 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, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with LLM application development
• Experience with cloud computing / Azure / AWS / GCP / Kubernetes.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum/Lean Methodology
• OR related technical field AND 6+ 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 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with LLM application development
• Experience with cloud computing / Azure / AWS / GCP / Kubernetes.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum/Lean Methodology

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $114,400 - CAD $203,900 per year.

• Find additional pay information here:
• https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 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. 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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