Senior Software Engineer
Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Overview
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.
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.
Qualifications
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.
- 1+ year(s) experience with NOSQL databases and high volume / throughput web applications and their design
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:
- 4+ years of full-stack experience developing distributed web service applications with highly concurrent server-side code.
- 4+ years of experience in programming in C#
- Solid customer empathy and willingness to learn.
- 4+ years of experience creating, releasing, and evolving large commercial software components or products at scale.
- 4+ years experience collaborating across teams to deliver complete features and end-to-end customer experiences.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Responsibilities
- Solve complex challenges in distributed systems: geo-replication, disaster recovery, data migration, and work distribution.
- Design robust APIs and object models powering new experiences across web and mobile.
- Champion Live Site culture, innovating to achieve high reliability and customer delight.
- Partner with Product 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.
- 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.