Senior Software Engineer - Backend

at  Microsoft

Vancouver, BC, Canada -

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Immediate26 Nov, 2024USD 108100 Annual29 Aug, 20242 year(s) or aboveComputer Science,Agile,C++,Java,Software Design,Microsoft,Analytical Skills,Application Frameworks,Cad,Python,DevopsNoNo
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Description:

Microsoft 365 (M365) Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud is the platform that powers billions of real-time customer conversations across Microsoft’s first-party (Teams, Skype), second-party (Dynamics), and third-party solutions (through Azure Communication Services). The platform enables reliable and high-quality messaging, meeting, and audio/video calling services that work every time, from anywhere, seamlessly across all customer touchpoints. Conversations on our platforms are made more intelligent in real-time, empowering best-in-class productivity tools for the modern workplace where every call, meeting, or chat will make the next one better.
We are the team behind all the messaging scenarios across multiple products, and develop one of the largest scale, business-critical distributed systems in Microsoft. Our services run in 25+ regions, and we process billions of messages a day, enabling hundreds of millions of active enterprise as well as consumer users. The micro services are highly scalable, highly available, and extremely performant in geo-redundant, multi-tenant systems and honor data sovereignty, privacy, security, and compliance. You will have an opportunity to work with a highly collaborative and fun team in a fast-learning environment.
We are looking for a “Senior Software Engineer - Backend” to join our team.
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.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with any object-oriented coding languages including, but not limited to C++, C#, Java or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years experience with designing, developing and operating backend services.

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:

  • 6+ years designing, developing, and operating backed services.
  • Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.
  • Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and/or application frameworks.
  • Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.
  • Proven analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.
  • Passion for building highly scalable, highly reliable services.
  • Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes.
    Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $108,100 - CAD $199,700 per year.
    Find additional pay information here:
    https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
    Microsoft will accept applications for the role until Spetember 11, 2024.

Responsibilities:

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Design, develop and operate features for large scale distributed software services and solutions.
  • Adhere to modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.
  • System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.
  • Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
  • Write clean and optimized code, improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
  • Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
  • Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.
  • Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.
  • Embody our Culture & Values

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


REQUIREMENT SUMMARY

Min:2.0Max:7.0 year(s)

Computer Software/Engineering

IT Software - System Programming

Software Engineering

Graduate

Computer Science, Engineering

Proficient

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Vancouver, BC, Canada