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Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Sep 14, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Software Engineer to help shape and build a rapidly expanding commercial platform. You will play a pivotal role in designing and implementing intelligent, scalable, and secure AI-driven solutions that builds the next generation of commerce automation at Microsoft. This is a dynamic, fast-paced opportunity to reimagine how our tools and platforms operate-transforming reactive, manual systems into AI-first, self-service, and predictive experiences using cutting-edge technologies. You'll be part of a high-impact engineering team operating in a startup-like environment, tackling the next wave of technical challenges. The role offers broad exposure across teams and technologies, providing a diverse and enriching technical experience. With our organization rapidly growing, this is a unique opportunity to accelerate your career and contribute to transformative innovation. At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We embrace a growth mindset, foster innovation, and collaborate to achieve shared goals. Every day, we build on our values-respect, integrity, and accountability-to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborate 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 workgroup. 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. Proactively 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. Drive, coach, and mentor others through design reviews, code reviews, and test case reviews. 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. Be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of these services, ensuring their scalability, reliability, and security. Drive improvements for systems and engineering processes with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets. Deliver value through a collaborative approach spanning multiple teams across geographies. Be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem-solving. Support and influence the team culture towards customer-centricity and continuous improvement. Implement practices that ensure accurate, safe, and efficient releases for our services.Embody our culture and values | |