Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Are you passionate about building high-scale, reliable, and intelligent cloud services? The Microsoft Teams Core Services team powers the foundation of one of Microsoft's fastest-growing products, serving over 330 million users around the world. As part of our team, you'll help develop resilient infrastructure that supports hyper-scaling, powers expansion into specialized clouds, and upholds the service fundamentals of performance, availability, and security. You'll be part of a high-energy, collaborative team that values learning, ownership, and engineering excellence.

As a Senior Software Engineer - Backend, you will design, build, and operate mission-critical backend services that support the scale and growth of Microsoft Teams. You will lead efforts to improve resiliency, performance, and reliability of core systems, and contribute to AI-assisted initiatives that enhance developer productivity. This opportunity will allow you to grow your expertise in distributed systems, drive service excellence, collaborate across global teams, and expand your leadership 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:

• Design and implement scalable, performant, and resilient backend services to support Microsoft Teams scenarios.
• Own live site operations for the services you build - monitoring health, diagnosing issues, and driving incident resolution.
• Apply cloud resiliency patterns such as circuit breakers, retries, bulkhead isolation, throttling, and stale cache strategies.
• Partner across disciplines and geographies to deliver cross-team initiatives and integrated services at scale.
• Participate in efforts to enhance engineering productivity using AI technologies and automation, contributing to a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design guidance, and knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to service infrastructure and observability efforts to support hyper-scale growth and specialized cloud expansion.

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.
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices architecture, and high-throughput, low-latency services and operating backend services in a cloud environment (Azure or AWS or Google Cloud Platform).

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.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools or interest in enhancing developer workflows through automation.
• Collaboration, communication, and partnership skills with a global, cross-functional team.
• Passion for technical excellence, growth mindset, and mentoring others.

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.

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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 5, 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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