18 hours ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the design and development of reliable, scalable, and performant distributed software systems.
- Build high-throughput platforms for content ingestion, processing, transformation, and delivery.
- Design scalable APIs, data pipelines, and feature/signal stores connecting ML systems with product surfaces.
- Write maintainable and testable code, participate in code reviews, and resolve production issues.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, stakeholders, and partner teams to define requirements, technical specifications, and implementations.
- Drive live-site excellence through instrumentation, monitoring, capacity planning, incident response, and continuous reliability improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience, including distributed systems or backend services experience, or equivalent experience.
- Professional coding experience in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
- Preferred qualifications include a master’s degree with 8+ years of experience, or a bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with large-scale system architecture, design, development, testing, release, database design, API design, performance tuning, and telemetry analysis.
- Ability to design complex distributed-systems workflows, gather partner requirements, identify dependencies, drive alignment, and lead implementation.
- Strong programming, data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, analytical, problem-solving, communication, and learning skills.
Benefits
- Employees living within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft U.S. hub are expected to work from the office at least four days per week, subject to local law and jurisdiction.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position will remain open for at least five days and accepts applications on an ongoing basis until filled.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
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.