Microsoft's Commerce + Ecosystems (C+E) is looking to design and develop highly scalable distributed systems for its Commerce Financial Platforms (CFP) team, specifically focusing on the Global Payments Platform (GPP). The goal is to build reliable, secure, and frictionless payment infrastructure that powers Microsoft's billion-dollar businesses, ensuring seamless payment experiences, top-tier security and compliance, and high reliability and performance across global transactions.
Requirements
- Proven experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems using cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS.
- Experience in architectural and technical system design skills, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Proficient in distributed system management and service-oriented architecture.
- Advanced knowledge of SQL/NoSQL technologies and principles of high availability database design.
- Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design patterns.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex service issues and optimize system performance.
- Hands-on experience with AI coding practices and integrating AI into engineering workflows.
Responsibilities
- Design and develop cloud-native microservices
- Implement secure and compliant systems for managing customer payment methods
- Solve challenges related to performance, availability, and scalability
- Collaborate across product, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver robust solutions
- Contribute to intelligent fraud prevention and agentic product capabilities
- Reviews product code and test code to ensure it meets team standards, contains the correct test coverage, and is appropriate for the product or solution area.
- Independently creates a clear test strategy that ensures solution quality, prevents regression from being introduced into existing code.
Other
- Embody our culture and values.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Experience working in agile development environments with ownership mindset.
- Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 23, 2025.
