Senior Software Engineer | MS Planner

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As part of this vision, we are transforming Microsoft Planner into a high-scale, unified work management platform. This foundational effort will eliminate complexity, streamline user experiences, and enable AI-driven productivity for millions of users worldwide.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Path team, you’ll partner with stakeholders to translate business goals into engineering plans and execute them with a relentless focus on security, reliability, and customer satisfaction.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of full-stack experience developing distributed web service applications with highly concurrent server-side code.
• 3+ years experience with NOSQL databases and high volume / throughput web applications and their designs
• 3+ years experience with C++

Other Requirements:

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience creating, releasing, and evolving large commercial software components or products at scale.
• Experience collaborating across teams to deliver complete features and end-to-end customer experiences.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $114,400 - CAD $203,900 per year.

Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 22, 2025.

• Solve complex challenges in distributed systems: geo-replication, disaster recovery, data migration, and work distribution.
• Collaborate in an agile environment, interacting with major Office 365 teams to build cross-service integrations and leverage expertise in product features; partner with stakeholders and managers to drive workgroup project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Partner with Program Management to design, implement, test, and iterate features for 10x growth in usage.
• Ensure secure, high-quality product delivery, overseeing system architecture and code quality.
• Champion Live Site culture, ensuring reliability and customer delight and mentor engineers, shaping the vision for agentic AI-powered work management.
• Seek new knowledge, adapt to trends, and apply technical solutions and patterns to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance across products, driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
• Embody Microsoft’s culture and values in all aspects of work.