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Microsoft Teams is the hub for modern collaboration—bringing together everything teams need to succeed, all within the Office 365 ecosystem. It serves as the canvas that unifies your content, tools, people, and conversations in one seamless experience. As one of Microsoft’s most dynamic and impactful products, Teams is redefining the future of teamwork—and we’re just getting started. Within the Messaging Services team, we’re evolving our microservices architecture to deliver new messaging capabilities while ensuring high performance, scalability, and cost efficiency. We’re looking for a passionate and skilled Senior Software Development Engineer to help us build robust, scalable backend services that power critical messaging experiences. This is a unique opportunity to sharpen your system design skills and work with a modern tech stack including .NET Core, Event hubs, Redis, and Azure Cosmos DB—all while collaborating across teams and organizations. We take pride in how we build. Our team runs lean, stays customer-obsessed, and makes decisions grounded in data. We embrace a live-site-first, metric-driven culture that minimizes tech debt and maximizes impact. In this role, you’ll take end-to-end ownership, drive meaningful outcomes, and directly influence customer satisfaction and business growth.
Job Responsibility:
Design, develop, and operate high-scale services that power the core messaging infrastructure of Microsoft Teams
Apply advanced in‑house AI tools to streamline development workflows, accelerate delivery, and improve system scalability
Dive deep into Azure technologies and distributed database systems
Collaborate with internal and external partners to design features that drive user growth and engagement
Develop features that delight customers while upholding the highest standards of availability, reliability, performance, and scalability
Influence and define new designs, architectures, standards, and reusable service libraries that empower teams across Microsoft to build 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
Experience working with Service Fabric or Kubernetes
Experience working on large-scale distributed systems, client-server architectures, and distributed database systems
Cross group collaboration, negotiation and communication skills
Ability to deal with the ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and changing environment
Experience working with M365 components like AAD, Exchange, Substrate, SharePoint
Drive to improve performance, availability and supportability of services