1 day ago
Base Salary
$120k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and evolve services and APIs powering Outlook experiences at global scale.
- Solve distributed-systems challenges involving reliability, performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
- Own features and services end to end, including technical design, implementation, testing, rollout, monitoring, and improvement.
- Write maintainable, well-tested code and modernize existing systems through architectural improvements.
- Use telemetry, experimentation, and customer feedback to identify problems and measure customer impact.
- Build security, privacy, and compliance into service design and implementation.
- Participate in production operations and incident response and drive improvements that prevent recurrence.
- Partner across Outlook and Microsoft 365 to define API contracts, manage dependencies, and deliver cohesive customer experiences.
- Improve engineering productivity through automation, tooling, and simpler development processes.
- Contribute through design discussions, code reviews, knowledge sharing, and inclusive engineering practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud background check.
- Preferred: 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, implementing, and shipping production software.
- Preferred: experience developing backend services using C# or another object-oriented programming language.
- Preferred: experience building distributed systems, cloud services, or web services.
- Preferred: experience operating large-scale production services, including monitoring, incident response, and reliability improvements.
- Preferred: experience designing APIs and improving latency, throughput, scalability, and resource efficiency.
- Preferred: familiarity with secure development practices, automated testing, and safe deployment strategies.
- Preferred: ability to make pragmatic technical tradeoffs and drive work across team boundaries.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is $119,800-$234,700 per year, with a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range of $160,200-$261,000 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The Microsoft Cloud background check is required upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
- The position is open for at least 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.