Senior Software Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond)

Job Description

Commerce + Ecosystems (C+E) is responsible for enabling and optimizing the end-to-end customer journey on the Microsoft Cloud. C+E’s Commerce Financial Platforms (CFP) team is responsible for Financial Platforms, Global Payments Platform (GPP), Employee Financial Experiences, and C+E Compliance, and also develops and operates financial commerce platforms and tools that perform all revenue management functions for our customers, partners, and staff worldwide. We are the engineering team within the Global Payments Platform (GPP) organization, a core platform in the Commerce and Ecosystem group at Microsoft. Our mission is to build and operate the backbone of Microsoft’s commerce capabilities, delivering seamless payment experiences, enforcing top-tier security and compliance, and ensuring high reliability and performance across global transactions. Our services support major Microsoft business units including Xbox, Office 365, Azure, Microsoft Store, and Edge, and are deployed in over 200 countries. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and develop cloud-native microservices, implement secure and compliant systems for managing customer payment methods, and solve challenges related to performance, availability, and scalability. You will collaborate across product, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver robust solutions, and contribute to intelligent fraud prevention and agentic product capabilities. This role requires technical depth, ownership mindset, and a drive to continuously modernize the payment stack using data-driven engineering and cloud technologies.

Job Responsibility

Reviews product code and test code to ensure it meets team standards, contains the correct test coverage, and is appropriate for the product or solution area
Brings insight to code reviews to help improve code quality, coaching and providing feedback to develop other engineers' skills
Conducts code reviews in a timely fashion that helps accelerate the pace of development on the team
Considers diagnosability, reliability, testability, and maintainability when reviewing code, and understands when code is ready to be shared or delivered
Applies and reviews for coding patterns, security risks, compliance issues, and best practices in code reviews, providing feedback on code to drive adherence to best practices
Uses automated source code analysis tools that are incorporated into the build/development process
Independently creates a clear test strategy that ensures solution quality, prevents regression from being introduced into existing code
Ensures test plans incorporate security testing to validate security invariants (including negative cases)
Drives additional new tests to cover gaps, deleting or fixing broken tests, and improving the speed, reliability, and defect localization of the test suite
Builds testable code and considers testability during design for a project/sub-section of a product/solution
Understands the different types of tests that can be done on a particular system (e.g., unit tests), maintains up-to-date understanding of testing architectures used both across Microsoft and across the industry, and applies them across the architecture as appropriate
Identifies difficult or untestable sections of codes for a project/sub-section of a product/solution for future design or rearchitecture discussions
Leverages artificial intelligence (AI) tools for test automation
Applies best practices to build code based on well-established methods and secure design principles while also applying best practices for new code development and formal validation of security invariants
Drives product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and security promises
Acts as a designated responsible individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on-call to monitor a system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
Alerts stakeholders as to status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple problems and complex problems when appropriate
Responds within service level agreement (SLA) timeframe
Drives efforts to reduce incident volume, looking globally at incidences and providing broad resolutions
Escalates issues to appropriate owners
Collaborates with and guides appropriate internal (e.g., Product Manager, Privacy/Security SMEs, 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
Incorporates customer insights into future designs or solution fixes
Ensures unwritten requirements, such as appropriate continuous feedback loops that measure actionable, quantitative (e.g., customer value, usage patterns, solution performance) and qualitative (e.g., accessibility, globalization) indicators of value are incorporated
Understands, provides feedback on, and advocates for security and privacy needs of the customer who will be using the project/sub-section of a product/solution
Embody our culture and values

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
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Nice to have

Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent with 5+ years of experience in software design and development, with a proven track record of delivering large-scale, high-performance, scalable systems
Proven experience designing and developing large-scale distributed systems using cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS
Architectural and technical system design skills, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance
Proficient in distributed system management and service-oriented architecture
Advanced knowledge of SQL/NoSQL technologies and principles of high availability database design
Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design patterns
Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex service issues and optimize system performance
Experience in E-Commerce, FinTech, Banking, or Payment domains
Hands-on experience with AI coding practices and integrating AI into engineering workflows
Familiarity with agentic frameworks and building AI agent-based applications
Effective collaboration across geographically distributed teams and cross-functional stakeholders
Passion for building highly scalable systems and continuously improving engineering standards
Experience working in agile development environments with a ownership mindset

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