Senior Software Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Software Engineer (Backend/Platform)

Description

Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and evolve services and APIs that power Outlook experiences at global scale. Own features end to end, solving distributed systems problems across reliability, performance, scalability, and fault tolerance while applying telemetry, experimentation, and customer feedback. Build security, privacy, and compliance into service design and participate in production operations and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve services and APIs that power Outlook experiences at global scale.
• Solve distributed systems challenges across reliability, performance, scalability, and fault tolerance.
• Own features and services end to end: technical design, implementation, testing, safe rollout, monitoring, and ongoing improvement.
• Write maintainable, well-tested code and modernize existing systems through architectural improvements.
• Use telemetry, experimentation, and customer feedback to identify problems, prioritize investments, and measure impact.
• Build security, privacy, and compliance into service design and implementation.
• Participate in production operations and incident response; diagnose issues across service boundaries and drive improvements to prevent recurrence.
• Partner with teams across Outlook and Microsoft 365 to define API contracts, manage dependencies, and deliver cohesive customer experiences.
• Improve engineering productivity via automation, tooling, and simpler development processes.
• Contribute to an inclusive engineering culture through design discussions, code reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or related technical field) AND 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience).
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
• Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Benefits

• Competitive base pay range (U.S.): USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (location-dependent ranges for San Francisco Bay Area and NYC).
• Eligible for benefits and other compensation.
• Open for a minimum of 5 days; applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.