Senior Software Engineer- Backend - Redmond, WA
1 day ago
Job description
Overview
Microsoft Teams is the hub for modern collaboration—bringing together everything teams need to succeed, all within the Office 365 ecosystem. It serves as the canvas that unifies your content, tools, people, and conversations in one seamless experience. As one of Microsoft's most dynamic and impactful products, Teams is redefining the future of teamwork—and we're just getting started.
Within the Messaging Services team, we're evolving our microservices architecture to deliver new messaging capabilities while ensuring high performance, scalability, and cost efficiency. We're looking for a
Senior Software Engineer- Backend
to help us build robust, scalable backend services that power critical messaging experiences. This is a unique opportunity to sharpen your system design skills and work with a modern tech stack including .NET Core, Event hubs, Redis, and Azure Cosmos DB—all while collaborating across teams and organizations.
We take pride in how we build. Our team runs lean, stays customer-obsessed, and makes decisions grounded in data. We embrace a live-site-first, metric-driven culture that minimizes tech debt and maximizes impact. In this role, you'll take end-to-end ownership, drive meaningful outcomes, and directly influence customer satisfaction and business growth.
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.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and operate high-scale services that power the core messaging infrastructure of Microsoft Teams
- Apply advanced in‑house AI tools to streamline development workflows, accelerate delivery, and improve system scalability.
- Dive deep into Azure technologies and distributed database systems. Collaborate with internal and external partners to design features that drive user growth and engagement.
- Develop features that delight customers while upholding the highest standards of availability, reliability, performance, and scalability—never compromising engineering fundamentals.
- Influence and define new designs, architectures, standards, and reusable service libraries that empower teams across Microsoft to build at scale.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
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.
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
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.
Experience working with Service Fabric or Kubernetes.
- Experience working on large-scale distributed systems, client-server architectures, and distributed database systems.
- Experience working with M365 components like AAD, Exchange, Substrate, SharePointDrive to improve performance, availability and supportability of services.
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about
requesting accommodations.
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