Do large-scale, self-healing services excite you? Do you love working on a highly-collaborative team? If so, I'd like to hear from you!

We own a critical backend execution engine for the M365 Substrate and a large scaled inventory. We run billions of workflows a month against 300k+ machines all around the globe, all while ensuring our customers the security and privacy they demand. We seek an engineer to help us evolve the central components of our service to keep up with ever-increasing scale. 

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities:

• Collaborate with others to develop, evolve and improve services used to keep M365 running
• Design and implement new features and improvements to existing features and designs
• Listen to users and leverage insights to build high-quality services people love to use

Qualifications

Qualified candidates will have a bachelor’s degree and the equivalent of 3+ years’ experience using C#, Java or similar languages.

Successful candidates will exhibit various attributes that will enhance their ability to succeed in these various positions:

• Collaboration - As most engineering is about working with others, both within an immediate team and across business units within Microsoft, effective collaboration is a core competency for all of our engineers.
• Customer Focus – We are nothing without our users. A focus on delivering value and being able to directly tie engineering decisions and actions to that value is a huge plus for successful engineers at any level.
• Drive for Results - Being able to drive for results — not merely finding the boundary of your responsibility — but following a problem through to its conclusion, to solve it once and for all, is a skill and capability that successful engineers exhibit.
• Technical Excellence – Technical excellence is at the heart of software engineering. This is demonstrating a passion for technology and the engineering craft, a curiosity to ‘go deep’, being able to quickly learn and build upon past experiences, and being able to extrapolate from those experiences and deliver innovation. Technical excellence is rooted in demonstrating a strong aptitude for problem solving.
• An ideal candidate would have experience designing, implementing, debugging and testing complex distributed services.
• Data experience such as GraphDB is welcome as well.

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.

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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