Office 365 is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud first, devices first strategy as it brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communications and collaboration products such as Exchange, SharePoint, Yammer, and Lync with the latest version of our desktop suite and mobile apps. Our customers depend on our services to run their organizations, whether that is a Fortune 500 company, a small business, a non-profit, or an educational institution.

Are you passionate about connectivity, and building leading software and services? Office 365 is the locomotive that is driving the growing Microsoft valuation, and critical to the future of the company. Substrate is the set of intelligent, high value services and compliant environment that is enabling the next generation of transformative end-user experiences for Office and the entire company. The Office 365 Connectivity team has an opportunity for you get in on designing and building a core part of the stack.

Design and build “Mega Scale” internet services in Office 365 group for consumers and businesses across the globe. Help end-users find the best connectivity and routing path to Office 365 service.

Responsibilities

Working in the Microsoft productivity suite where you enable millions of users to have instant access to their mail, calendar, contacts, tasks, notes on their smart phones

Driving innovation in the mobile space by providing framework, APIs and access points for targeted, light weight point apps that facilitate the users to do specific tasks easily and conveniently.

Staying at the cutting edge of the performance and reliability while working with the largest organizations in the world to make sure their workforce has the uninterrupted and instant access to the most critical productivity item – “emails on their phones”

Building distributed, highly available and resilient systems

Analyzing, designing and implementing connectivity and routing system, and ensure the highest code quality and performance

Working with services spanning thousands of servers, doing tens of billions of transactions and serving hundreds of millions of users

Qualifications

We are looking for a seasoned Software Engineer with more than 1 year working experience in software engineering, passion for quality and proven record of delivering excellent results under challenging schedule to work on one of the largest distributed systems in the world. This position requires a deep interest in software development and strong knowledge of computing concepts such as fault tolerance, self-healing, network protocols, multi-threaded programming, performance, reliability, scalability, and security.

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