Are you enthusiastic about solving technical challenges and above all – customer success and satisfaction? Are you interested in building highly available distributed services of planetary scale working for thousands of businesses and millions of consumers around the world. Are you passionate about building resilient services which fulfill 100s of billions of requests per day and growing every year? Would you like to be part of a global highly collaborative team? Do you enjoy providing technical leadership and driving the service in the right direction? If so – the Senior Software Engineer is a great opportunity for you.

　　Substrate is the data and intelligence platform that enables partner teams at Microsoft to build, deploy, and maintain compliant productivity apps and services with reduced effort and faster time to market. Substrate is one of the key pillars of Microsoft 365 cloud business offerings, used by millions of people across the world, hundreds of thousands of commercial organizations and government agencies.

　　The Substrate Directory team owns the directory services that provide user access to Substrate and inter-machine communication within the Substrate. We work closely with Azure Active Directory to provide directory functionality to our partners and users.

　　More About Microsoft 365 and Substrate

　　Microsoft 365 (M365) is the fastest growing cloud services business in Microsoft. M365 brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communications and collaboration products like Teams, Exchange, SharePoint, and OneDrive with the desktop suite of Office products in an always up-to-date integrated service offering. Since its launch, the service has made it easier for millions of information workers across the world in small, medium, and large enterprises to use the best of Microsoft’s business productivity solutions via the cloud. The service now extends the same capability to consumer communication and collaboration products.

　　Responsibilities

　　Extensive development and unit testing in C#

　　Proactively identify and resolve people, process, and technology issues to reduce incident mitigation time.

　　Solve issues through software or automation improvements.

　　Collaborate on the design of the overall services with a focus on service reliability and automated troubleshooting.

　　Design, develop and deliver solutions in an evolving agile development environment.

　　Mentor and develop engineers through knowledge sharing and coaching. 

　　Be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem solving.

　　Qualifications

　　Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

　　Design, implementation, debugging and testing of complex distributed systems.

　　A track-record of shipping products and experience delivering software through multiple development cycles.

　　Strong communication skills and experience working across disciplines and functions.

　　Ability to work and thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment and maintain effective communication in remote, hybrid environments across different time zones.

　　Experience building cloud infrastructure services and familiarity with cloud technologies.

　　Understanding database solutions used in large distributed systems.

　　Experience with performance optimizations to reduce latency, increase reliability and reduce cost.

　　Experience with directory and/or data storage systems.

　　Experience building extensible and maintainable services that stand the test of time.

　　Understanding of REST and gRPC.

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