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Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 May 20, 2025 | |
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OverviewAs part of the Commerce Platform & Experiences team, you will help build and operate world-class commerce experiences for customers and partners, working on highly strategic and industry-relevant projects in a dynamic environment. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the development of Microsoft's rapidly growing commercial platform. In this role, you will write high-quality code to build robust, reliable, and highly distributed software systems using the latest technologies. You will be empowered to envision, design, code, validate, and deploy key features with substantial customer impact, collaborating with teams across the company to gain broad exposure and diverse technical experience. At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. We foster a culture of inclusion, growth, and innovation, built on values of respect, integrity, and accountability. If you're passionate about driving meaningful impact, solving complex problems, and contributing to a growing organization, we would love to hear from you.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a service, or platform.Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and reliability.Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to contribute to the planning process.Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and work with other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also improving monitoring and operations at scale. | |