Senior Software Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Vancouver)

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
Canada , Vancouver

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

114400.00 - 203900.00 CAD / Year

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Job Description:

With a mission to captivate over 100M daily active users, Microsoft News (MSN) is scaling a global content powerhouse featuring 7,000 active brands. The Trust Safety and Intelligence (TSI) team in MSN is utilizing advance AI systems to ensure the content quality, trust, and safety for the end users. TSI team is hiring passionate engineers to join its customer- and partner-obsessed culture and help shape the future of digital content. As a Senior Software Engineer in the TSI team, you will directly impact billions of users by delivering safe, high-quality, and engaging content across products like Windows, Edge, and Outlook. You’ll apply advanced AI and LLM-based techniques to optimize content delivery and user experience. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, deepen your understanding of large-scale content systems, and sharpen your skills in AI-driven engineering.

Job Responsibility:

Independently uses appropriate artificial intelligence (AI) tools and practices across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) in a disciplined manner
Collaborates with and guides appropriate internal (e.g., product manager, privacy/security subject matter expert, technical lead) and external (e.g. customer escalation team, public forums) stakeholders to determine and confirm customer/user requirements for a project/sub-section of a product/solution
Leads discussions for and owns the architecture of a products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and develop complex design specifications
Tests and explores various design options for a complex product/solution scenario, outlining strengths and weaknesses of each option
Independently creates a clear test strategy that ensures solution quality, prevents regression from being introduced into existing code
Leads by example within the team to produce extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant code that adheres to design specifications
Designs and creates complex distributed systems workflows by gathering requirements from partner teams, identifying of dependencies, and driving alignment and design with partner and product teams, and finally leading the implementation of the solution
Collaborates with engineering and product teams and implement services that offers five 9s of availabilities
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems
Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale

Requirements:

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
Experience in large scale system architecture, design, development, testing, and release, including but not limited to web applications, microservices in layers, database design, API design, performance tuning, telemetry design and analysis
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice to have:

Can design and create complex distributed systems workflows by gathering requirements from partner teams, identifying of dependencies, and driving alignment and design with partner and product teams, and finally leading the implementation of the solution
Demonstrable history of excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Demonstrated programming skills and knowledge of architectural patterns for large, high-scale applications
Excellence in software engineering practices, coding and solid foundation in data structures, algorithms with demonstrated testing, debugging and analytical skills
Data-driven mindset. Ability to analyze data and persuade your team using effective analysis
Excellent learning, problem solving and communication skills

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
March 05, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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