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Time & Places team powers the calendar and collaboration products that hundreds of millions of users count on every day to connect, organize, and get things done.  Through our rich history of bringing calendar in Outlook and other M365 apps we have learned the importance of building products that focus on simplicity, reliability, and creating delightful experiences so everyone can cut through the noise and focus on what matters most to them.  

Are you passionate about designing and building the next generation Time Management Platform used by hundreds of millions of users every day? Do you want to work on cutting-edge scalable backend systems with high performance and reliability? Do you want to work on the infra that powers the next gen Collaboration experiences? Do you wish you could work in a startup group but inside an established division like Microsoft 365? If you have answered a resounding “YES!” for all the above, then we may have a position for you!   

The Time Management and Collaboration Service team is building the next generation of microservices to power new time management experiences. We’re looking for a software engineer to write scalable, maintainable, efficient service code to run on tens of thousands of servers supporting millions of customers every day. We are looking for a senior engineer with experience building high scalable microservices, working with partner teams to deliver on the next generation of collaborative time management experiences. 

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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. 

• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. 

• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). 

• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. 

• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides 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 driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Qualifications

Minimum 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. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong passion and proven experience delivering highly quality services/distributed systems. 

• Ability to generate clarity in ambiguous situations  

• Passion for and ability to quickly understand emerging technologies.

• Strong background in object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms. 

• Performance analysis skills 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .