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We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Software Engineer to help shape and build a rapidly expanding commercial platform. You will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing intelligent, scalable, and secure AI-driven solutions that power the next generation of commerce automation at Microsoft. This is a dynamic, fast-paced opportunity to reimagine how our tools and platforms operate—transforming reactive, manual systems into AI-first, self-service, and predictive experiences using cutting-edge technologies.

You’ll be part of a high-impact engineering team operating in a startup-like environment, tackling the next wave of technical challenges. The role offers broad exposure across teams and technologies, providing a diverse and enriching technical experience. With our organization rapidly growing, this is a unique opportunity to accelerate your career and contribute to transformative innovation.

At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We embrace a growth mindset, foster innovation, and collaborate to achieve shared goals. Every day, we build on our values—respect, integrity, and accountability—to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive.

Responsibilities

+ Collaborate with stakeholders to determine user requirements for various scenarios.

+ Drive the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms.

+ Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to enhance performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

+ Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partner with stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive project plans, release plans, and work items for the workgroup.

+ Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor systems/products/services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status, and initiating actions to restore systems/products/services for both simple and complex problems when appropriate.

+ Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

+ Lead by example, engage in discussions on the architecture of products or solutions, and apply engineering principles to establish robust and maintainable architecture and designs.

+ Overcome roadblocks to deliver work to users quickly and iteratively.

+ Drive, coach, and mentor others through design reviews, code reviews, and test case reviews.

+ Design, develop, and operationalize the deployment of complex, enterprise-grade cloud services that leverage multiple services and platforms, ensuring high availability, scalability, robustness, and observability.

+ Be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of these services, ensuring their scalability, reliability, and security.

+ Drive improvements for systems and engineering processes with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets.

+ Deliver value through a collaborative approach spanning multiple teams across geographies.

+ Be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem-solving.

+ Support and influence the team culture towards customer-centricity and continuous improvement.

+ Implement practices that ensure accurate, safe, and efficient releases for our services.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications (RQs)

+ 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,

+ OR equivalent experience.

+ 3+ years of experience in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures and algorithms, with problem solving, debugging and analytical skills.

+ 2+ years’ experience in design and implementation of large-scale cloud services.

Preferred Qualifications

+ Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, along with 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python;

+ OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, along with 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java OR equivalent experience.

+ Industry experience with cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, Google).

+ Experience with distributed systems, micro-service architecture, scalability patterns, and high-availability architecture.

+ Experience with AI/ML technologies, especially LLMs and prompt engineering.

+ Experience with Pub/Sub systems and streaming ingestion systems.

+ Proven experience in driving large strategic and complex or ambiguous projects that span organizations.

+ Proficient in problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to debugging and performance optimization.

+ Experience in deploying, monitoring, and operating services in the cloud.

+ Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and organizational skills.

+ Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes.

+ Familiarity with modern engineering practices such as CI/CD and version control systems like Git.

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.

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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 for the role until October 20, 2025

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) .