Senior Software Engineer - Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA 98073
About the Job
Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.
The Commerce Financial Systems group at Microsoft is dedicated to developing and delivering a precise, agile, and compliant trillion-dollar financial platform. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed?to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer with technical capabilities, and experience building and running cloud-scale online services. You will leverage Azure technologies to support and evolve core commerce services to scale to $1 trillion and beyond.
Successful candidates will have proficiency in communication, leadership, and cross-group collaboration skills. If you want to work with a team of motivated engineers, have access to world-class technologies, love solving complex problems, and delivering solutions that empower every person and every organization to achieve more, this is the opportunity for you.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
**Responsibilities**
+ Design, develop and?operate?large scale,?efficient?and reliable?cloud services.
+ Write high quality, maintainable and high-performance code following demonstrated development principles.
+ Mentor other engineers by teaching best practices and encouraging thought leadership.
+ Work with Project Managers and business stakeholders to design and deliver new features, collaborating with partner teams across the org to ensure successful launches.
+ Identify?opportunities and drive the implementation of monitoring, self-healing, and automation capabilities to improve service manageability and reliability.
+ Participate in an on-call rotation (typically 24/7 for one week every 6-8 weeks) acting as Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) to monitor production systems for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and taking appropriate actions to restore system/product/service.
+ Investigate and resolve Customer Reported Incidents, continually looking for ways to minimize or eliminate future incidents and improve customer experiences.
+ Embody our?culture?and?values.
Other
+ Embody our Culture (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)
**Qualifications**
Required Qualifications:
+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
+ OR equivalent experience
+ Demonstrated C# coding skills building enterprise grade Internet scale web and backend API services.
+ 2+ years demonstrated experience working on Cloud Services such as Azure, AWS or similar environments.
+ 2+ years demonstrated technical, cross group collaboration experience and proficient communication skills.
Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Preferred Qualifications:
+ 8+ years software development experience (online services preferred) and experience in testing, deploying and supporting large scale services on Azure, AWS or similar environments
+ Ability to understand unfamiliar code bases, and debug server-side, multi-threaded, and highly scalable applicatio
+ Experience working with financial systems.
+ Passion for learning and teaching.
+ Extensive experience working on Azure services (App Services, AKS, Azure Storage, Event Hub, etc.).
+ Experience leading/delivering projects that span multiple engineering teams.
+ Experience working in Agile environments.
+ Experience with test-driven development.
+ Experience building and operating high scale services.
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .
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