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Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Apr 09, 2025 | |
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OverviewOur organization focuses on building and delivering cloud-based solutions and enterprise software that empower businesses to achieve more. This team drives innovation in cloud computing, data analytics, and enterprise services, ensuring robust and scalable solutions for customers worldwide. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team. As part of our team, you will be responsible for delivering world-class experiences to our customers and partners. This position offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with engineers, operating in a startup-like environment to tackle our next set of significant challenges. You will be joining the project at its inception, allowing your ideas to shape its future direction. You will be empowered to envision, design, code, validate, and deploy key features with substantial customer impact. There are numerous opportunities to make a significant impact and grow rapidly within our expanding organization. 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.
ResponsibilitiesResponsibilities: 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 work-group. 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. Pro-actively 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. 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. | |