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Senior Software Engineer - Backend

Microsoft

$119,800 - $258,000
Aug 21, 2025
Redmond, WA, US
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Microsoft's OneDrive and SharePoint services need to enable partners and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to migrate from other cloud providers, improve core systems performance and efficiencies, and ensure zero customer impact throughout the change management cycle. The team aims to deliver systems for business continuity planning, provide telemetry for service optimization, and reduce the response time for detecting and resolving service issues.

Requirements

  • Experience designing cloud-scale services and distributed systems.
  • Proficient in delivering and interacting with REST API’s and web services across multiple systems.
  • Able to learn new systems quickly and adapt new methodologies to our service.
  • Experience coding, debugging, algorithm design and problem-solving skills.
  • Experience with building cloud-scale infrastructure components.
  • Awareness, passion, and experience related to cloud scale distributed design and patterns.
  • Familiar with secure software design concepts.

Responsibilities

  • Design and deliver systems that enable partners and Independent Software Vendor (ISVs) to migrate from other cloud providers, improve core systems performance and efficiencies, and ensure zero customer impact throughout the change management cycle.
  • Deliver systems to meet our business continuity planning goals, provide telemetry for optimizing the service and drive our response time for detecting and resolving service issues down.
  • Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
  • 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.
  • Collaborate with partner teams to meet the engineering goals in a unified manner.
  • Experience mentoring and coaching peers and early-in-career engineers.

Other

  • Collaborates 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Ability and eagerness to work across and partner with multiple engineering teams to achieve business goals.