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We want you to come help us design and build the future of Real-Time Communications!

We are building a new RTC platform from the ground up. We're aiming to support emerging scenarios demanded by a modern, remote world, breaking the mold of the traditional "conference call". This includes, but is not limited to, powering multi-modal communications between humans and AI.

We need a Senior Software Engineer- Real Time Communications to join our team.

We work with state-of-industry tools and technology, like Rust and Kubernetes. And we engage with the open-source community, and collaborate with other giants in the RTC industry. Are you excited by high-scale, high-performance distributed systems? Are you passionate about real-time media scenarios? Do you want to work with and/or contribute to the most modern technology components? This is your chance!

Building and running services at scale for Microsoft 365 for hundreds of million consumer and enterprise users is very challenging, but it is a lot of fun and rewarding. We are looking for an engineer to help us do just that to power and deliver on IC3's mission. This opportunity will allow you to make a broad positive impact across many critical IC3 domains such as chat, audio/video calling, meetings, service and data engineering, and service management.

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

+ Participate with Architects and other team members on holistic system design.

+ Lead the design, development, deployment, and operation of components of a high reliability, global scale real-time communication platform.

+ Create and improve systems and processes to raise the reliability and quality of media services to the next level.

+ Collaborate with people across Microsoft and in the industry to bring innovation to our products.

+ Influence the engineering culture to strive for a clean architecture, sound engineering practices, and a growth mindset.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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.

+ 4+ years of experience building and shipping software.

+ 3+ years of experience successfully designing and building highly reliable global scale services.

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 of experience building and shipping software.

+ Experience C/C++ or RUST programming languages.

+ Experience with Audio/Video processing, codecs, or transports.

+ Experience with containerized deployments via Kubernetes.

+ Experience with Stream processing architectures using Kafka or Azure Event Hubs.

+ Experience with Linux OS.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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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) .