3 days ago
Redmond, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$102k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Write and maintain backend messaging services with attention to concurrency, ordering, idempotency, reliability, diagnosability, and maintainability.
- Review code and architecture proposals, identify platform dependencies, and contribute to designs for globally distributed messaging systems.
- Create and execute test strategies, including security and negative-case testing, and automate testing with AI tools.
- Contribute to secure deployment automation, feature flighting, rollback planning, capacity planning, and production-like validation.
- Build logging, instrumentation, telemetry, dashboards, alerts, troubleshooting documentation, and other supportability improvements.
- Participate in on-call rotations, act as a designated responsible individual, respond to incidents within SLA, and conduct retrospectives.
- Collaborate with TPMs, product managers, security and privacy experts, technical leads, and partner teams to understand requirements and coordinate releases.
- Apply security, privacy, safety, accessibility, compliance, least-access, and data-protection practices throughout development and operations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including C# or Java, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree and 3+ years of experience, or a bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Experience with backend services, distributed systems, testing, deployment, observability, reliability, security, and incident response is relevant to the role.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $102,100–$202,200 per year; a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range is USD $133,800–$219,200 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for a minimum of five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.