Senior Software Engineer - M365 Copilot
Microsoft
In this role, you will work on large‑scale, distributed backend systems that construct, process, and move information to enable intelligent Copilot experiences across Microsoft 365 products. You will join a team focused on turning complex data flows into reliable, high‑throughput services that Copilot depends on at scale.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain distributed platform services that support Microsoft 365 Copilot across multiple products.
- Develop cloud‑native microservices using ASP.NET and related technologies.
- Build and optimize high‑throughput processing pipelines that handle large‑scale data ingestion, transformation, and transmission between services.
- Design and operate systems that process large volumes of data with strong guarantees around reliability, consistency, and performance.
- Analyze end‑to‑end service and data flows to understand system behavior, bottlenecks, and failure modes.
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve data processing and quality issues in production environments.
- Partner with engineers across teams to define service interfaces, processing contracts, and scalable integration patterns.
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.
- Solid experience building distributed systems and service‑oriented architectures.
- Hands‑on experience with data processing pipelines and systems that handle large‑scale data flows.
- Proficiency in C# / ASP.NET or similar backend development frameworks.
- Solid understanding of high‑throughput systems, including performance, reliability, and scalability trade‑offs.
- Experience working with Microsoft Azure fundamentals, including authentication, identity, and core platform services.
- 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.
- Experience designing or operating big data systems, including large‑scale storage, processing, or distributed computation.
- Familiarity with microservice‑based data processing architectures in cloud environments.
- Understanding of service‑to‑service data exchange, flow control, and fault tolerance.
- Experience debugging complex issues in distributed, data‑intensive production systems.
- Solid analytical and problem‑solving skills, with clear technical communication.
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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