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Overview

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.

Commerce + Ecosystems (C+E) is responsible for enabling and optimizing the end-to-end customer journey on the Microsoft Cloud. C+E’s Commerce Financial Platform (CFP) team is responsible for Financial Platforms, Global Payments, Employee Financial Experiences, and C+E Governance, and also develops and operates financial commerce platforms and tools that perform all revenue management functions for our customers, partners, and staff worldwide.

We are looking for Senior Software engineer to be part of Finance Platform balance management group that runs platforms and services that power billions of dollars of accurate commitment and credits across multiple lines of businesses worldwide. We provide unique commitment and credit platforms for multiple Microsoft businesses: Azure, Office, Windows, Xbox, Store, Gaming etc. We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire and grow within our organization and we encourage you to apply to learn more.

In this team, you will have the opportunity to design and develop creative and compelling solutions in the cloud that enable Microsoft to accomplish critical business. You would have opportunities to demonstrate technical leadership developing scalable services, innovating on the latest technologies, adopting modern engineering practices, infusing AI agentic workflows, creating positive impact through partnership and collaboration across multiple engineering teams and delivering high quality of service through live site excellence. You will work closely with peers and partners across multiple engineering teams and the program management team to deliver solutions that delight customers with the service.

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

+ Understands and applies security best practices and establishes code invariants to model "security as code," ensuring each layer is independently secure, and minimizing risk. Supports and/or adopts security standards for clear security code review practices for a project/sub-system of a product that align with design and engineering principles to raise the security hardening for both protections and detections. Incorporates deployment gates on security controls, and scanners for a project/sub-system of a product to prevent regressions and/or vulnerabilities that would have customer impact. Includes required security monitoring to ensure detection of violations. Independently works with relevant security partners to define security promises and security invariants for the design of a product/solution while factoring in attacker/investigator personas for security monitoring and telemetry needs, ensure threat models and premortems validate upstream and downstream assumptions and security invariants, establish security breach drills and security incident response processes (e.g., impact analysis, containment), and ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) safety features are implemented for the AI production systems tied to a project/sub-system of a product.

+ Leads discussions for and owns the architecture of a products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and develop complex design specifications. Tests and explores various design options for a complex product/solution scenario, outlining strengths and weaknesses of each option. Independently collaborates with architects to build and modify complex products/solutions, providing feedback as needed.

+ Owns or collaborates with other engineers on the architecture of solutions, with minimal technical oversight. Develops design documents that support user stories and other product requirements. Maintains awareness of the current technology landscape, and determines how to integrate these technologies within existing systems. Shares learnings and identified solutions from investigations with the team and owns for some design decisions.

+ Ensures system architecture and individual designs meet performance, scalability, resiliency, cost of goods sold (COGS), disaster recovery, and other requirements and expectations. Upholds Microsoft standards of security, privacy, and other compliance requirements and expectations. Understands and coaches less experienced engineers on the importance of building solutions that expand upon the work of others. Drives the refinement of products through data analytics, and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration. Reviews designs/architectures within and across teams to provide recommendations for improvements.

+ Modernize a highly time-sensitive, large-scale data processing system where precision and reliability are critical. Build AI-powered solutions that simplify the balance management lifecycle and advance Microsoft’s commerce technologies. Leverage the latest technologies to deliver innovative features and create new value for our customers. Collaborate in an agile, cross-functional environment, partnering with multiple commerce teams to design and implement seamless cross-service integrations.

+ Uses debugging tools, tests, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively verify assumptions while developing code before issues occur for products in production. Conducts incident retrospectives to identify root causes of problems, implements repair actions, and identifies mechanisms to prevent incident recurrence. Independently applies least-access principles, uses logging, telemetry, and other appropriate mechanisms to investigate issues while retaining privacy and security, and drives those practices across the team.

+ Maintains operations of live site service, following security best practices when responding quickly to mitigate issues while using the minimum required permissions to do so that arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of live site service and escalates appropriately. Reviews and writes incident postmortem and presents insights that drive changes to reduce or eliminate incidents. Independently improves troubleshooting guides (TSGs), wikis, tests, and telemetry to make on-call better, and recommends user-facing support documentation and additional test coverage to reduce likelihood of future user-initiated incidents. Enables secure operations, security monitoring, and integration with live site investigation activities. Identifies and proposes opportunities (e.g., lunch talks, automation, practices, tools) that can be leveraged to improve the live site experience. Adds comprehensive observability and monitoring to services.

+ Embody our culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) and values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) .

Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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.

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:

+ Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in software design and development, with a proven track record of delivering large-scale, high-performance, scalable systems. This includes experience in application/service development and full-stack development.

+ Proven experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems using cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.

+ Experience with architectural and technical system design skills, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.

+ Proficient in distributed system management and service-oriented architecture.

+ Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex service issues and optimize system performance.

+ Hands-on experience with AI coding practices and integrating AI into engineering workflows.

+ Familiarity with agentic frameworks and building AI agent-based applications.

+ Passion for building highly scalable systems and continuously improving engineering standards.

+ Experience working in agile development environments with a ownership mindset.

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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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations 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)