Senior Software Engineer, Fauna
The IC3 Messaging / Transport team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and operate highly reliable, scalable, and secure cloud services that power message delivery across Microsoft 365.
In this role, you will work on large-scale distributed systems and critical transport infrastructure. You will contribute to service architecture, feature development, reliability improvements, performance optimization, monitoring, incident investigation, and production operations. You will also help modernize the Transport platform, improve engineering automation, and apply AI-native approaches to development, testing, debugging, and operational workflows.
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.
Design and develop high-quality backend services and software components.
Apply a systematic approach to solving complex and ambiguous engineering problems.
Develop simple, extensible, reliable, and maintainable software designs.
Make sound technical tradeoffs across quality, performance, reliability, cost, and development velocity.
Write high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code.
Diagnose complex technical and production issues and drive problems to resolution.
Use data, telemetry, and engineering evidence to improve software and make technical decisions.
Understand modern AI technologies and effectively leverage AI and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development, testing, debugging, and productivity.
Explore new technologies and apply them where they can meaningfully improve products or engineering practices.
Collaborate effectively with engineers and partner teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
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:
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, the company is also OpenAI's principal compute partner and ships AI tooling for developers through GitHub, VS Code and Azure AI.
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