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Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jul 08, 2025 | |
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OverviewIf you're passionate about building cutting-edge solutions that empower teamwork and communication, we want to hear from you! Microsoft Teams is the central hub for teamwork, bringing together people, content, and tools to enhance team engagement and effectiveness. It plays a pivotal role in Microsoft's vision for modern work, modern life, and modern education. We are revolutionizing how people communicate and collaborate across the globe.We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer fortheMicrosoft Teams Core Messaging group.This person willcollaborate with a multi-functional group to deliver next generation innovations and partner withproduct and engineering teams to innovate and deliver on the future for Teams AI and Messaging products.In this role, you will:Collaborate and work across multiple disciplines to deliver innovation.Contribute to technical decision-making and help set priorities for development tasks.Inspire without authority across teams and motivate individuals to work together towards common goals.Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues across various platforms or environments.Provide mentorship and guidance to team members, fostering knowledge sharing and growth.Thrive in a bit of chaos and create the structure needed to execute smoothly at scale.Our culture is inclusive, customer-driven; our team members come from diverse backgrounds, are passionate and grounded in our customer and business needs. Our team has a sense of artisanship and accountability and provides its members many opportunities for learning and career 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.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.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. | |