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Microsoft’s Path team empowers customers to move seamlessly from Idea → Plan → Done, delivering collaborative work management solutions across Microsoft Project, Planner, To Do, Whiteboard, and Visio. We are building the Future of Work by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and Agentic AI to create intelligent, connected experiences that drive productivity across Microsoft 365.

As part of this vision, we are transforming Microsoft Planner into a high-scale, unified work management platform. This foundational effort will eliminate complexity, streamline user experiences, and enable AI-driven productivity for millions of users worldwide.

As a **Senior Software Engineer** on the Path team, you’ll partner with stakeholders to translate business goals into engineering plans and execute them with a relentless focus on security, reliability, and customer satisfaction.

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

+ Solve complex challenges in distributed systems: geo-replication, disaster recovery, data migration, and work distribution.

+ Design robust APIs and object models powering new experiences across web and mobile.

+ Champion Live Site culture, innovating to achieve high reliability and customer delight.

+ Partner with Product Management to design, implement, test, and iterate features for 10x growth in usage.

+ Ensure secure, high-quality product delivery, overseeing system architecture and code quality.

+ Mentor engineers, shaping the vision for agentic AI-powered work management.

+ Seek new knowledge, adapt to trends, and apply technical solutions and patterns to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance across products, driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Embody our  Culture   and  Values

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.

+ 1+ year(s) experience with NOSQL databases and high volume / throughput web applications and their design

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:

+ 4+ years of full-stack experience developing distributed web service applications with highly concurrent server-side code.

+ 4+ years of experience in programming in C#

+ Solid customer empathy and willingness to learn.

+ 4+ years of experience creating, releasing, and evolving large commercial software components or products at scale.

+ 4+ years experience collaborating across teams to deliver complete features and end-to-end customer experiences.

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 November 10th, 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) .