3 days ago
Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end technical strategy, system design, and evolution roadmap for the commerce ecosystem.
- Define system boundaries, data ownership, interfaces, APIs, events, performance benchmarks, and integration patterns across commerce capabilities.
- Connect commerce systems with payments, tax, fraud prevention, fulfillment, returns, identity and consent, telemetry, and analytics.
- Establish engineering contracts with enterprise services and make cross-system build-versus-buy, interoperability, customization, and vendor-exit decisions.
- Define measurable requirements for resilience, scalability, performance, observability, security, accessibility, and operating cost.
- Design for transaction integrity, idempotency, reconciliation, failure recovery, and traceability across distributed APIs and event-driven workflows.
- Guide modernization through implementation, migration, coexistence, release, cutover, and rollback, and remain accountable for technical integrity after launch.
- Establish engineering standards, reusable patterns, development practices, and decision mechanisms for a future commerce engineering team.
- Lead technical and code reviews, document key decisions, resolve conflicting approaches, and influence and mentor partner-team engineers without direct authority.
- Design and build platform foundations for AI-assisted and agentic commerce with controlled access, permissions, consent, auditability, and safeguards.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Experience leading complex, cross-team system design, resolving ambiguity, and influencing technical decisions.
- Experience designing reliable distributed systems and modernizing critical platforms while managing migration risk.
- Preferred experience with commerce platforms, SaaS integrations, vendor evaluation, and governed AI capabilities.
Benefits
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation; additional benefits and pay information is provided through Microsoft’s careers site.
- The position will remain open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
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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.