Microsoft

Sr. Software Engineer--M365 Directory team

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4 days ago
Suzhou, China or Shanghai, ChinaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Partner with stakeholders to define customer and service requirements, technical requirements, and success criteria for Directory Modernization.
  • Own the architecture, design, implementation, and delivery of complex directory subsystems such as storage, APIs, synchronization, migration pipelines, caching, and traffic management.
  • Build secure, scalable, reliable, and maintainable distributed systems with automated testing, telemetry, data validation, deployment, migration, and rollback mechanisms.
  • Drive alignment across engineering and partner teams and contribute to project plans, interface contracts, design reviews, release plans, and long-term technical direction.
  • Monitor service health, participate in on-call rotations, mitigate live-site incidents, perform root-cause analyses, and improve availability, performance, security, and operational efficiency.
  • Lead engineering practices through code and design reviews, technical documentation, data-driven decisions, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Coding experience in one or more of 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: a master’s degree and 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or a bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: ability to use AI-assisted tools and techniques to investigate technical problems, evaluate solutions, and accelerate implementation while maintaining correctness, security, and engineering quality.

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10,000+ employees

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.

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