Microsoft Teams is the hub for team collaboration in Office 365 that integrates people, content, and tools modern workplace teams need to be more engaged and effective. It is the hottest product at Microsoft and we’re on course to disrupt the team collaboration space.

In the Messaging Services team, we are continuously evolving our messaging micro-services to support new messaging features while maintaining a high performance, scalable and cost-effective eco-system. We are looking for a strong software development engineer who can help us build revolutionary, robust and scalable backend services. Do you have strong technical leadership, design, coding and collaboration skills? Do you want to work on team that supports each other and helps each other learn and grow? If yes, then the Messaging Services team is for you!

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

As part of the Messaging Services engineering team, you will be designing, developing and maintaining high scale services that form the backbone of Microsoft Teams.

You will be working on Tier 0 (critical) services that impact millions of users across the world.

You are expected to dive deep into Azure technologies and distributed database systems. You will collaborate with partners, internal and external to Microsoft Teams organization, in order to design and build features that drive growth in our user base. We have numerous partners and thus, strong collaboration skills are required.

As you develop said features to delight our customers, you are expected to always keep availability, reliability, performance and scalability in mind. We never compromise on these fundamentals.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

- Strong passion for delivering high-quality, resilient, large scale services.

- Strong coding and development skills with experience in at least one of the following languages: C#, .Net Core, Java

- Passionate about solving challenging problems.

- 1+ year experience in large-scale distributed systems, client-server architectures, and distributed database systems.

- Strong cross team/organization collaboration skills

- BS/MS Degree in Computer Science or related engineering field.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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