Senior Software Engineer - Microsoft 365 Copilot

Microsoft is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help deliver the next generation of capabilities for the Microsoft 365 Copilot platform. The role involves designing, developing, and delivering innovative software applications while collaborating with team members and stakeholders to ensure high-quality software that meets user needs.

Responsibilities:

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform
• Lead by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers

Requirements:

• 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
• 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
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience designing distributed systems, near real-time (NRT) processing solutions, or Big Data platforms
• 3+ years of experience technically leading or mentoring groups of engineers and communicating with multi-disciplinary stakeholders
• Experience working with large-scale distributed systems (e.g., cloud computing providers, SaaS services, etc., ideally with millions or billions of users) or similarly complex environments
• Awareness of, and ability to reason about, modern distributed software design patterns and cloud systems architecture, including microservices, containers, load-balancing, queuing, caching
• Experience in building, shipping and operating reliable solutions