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Overview
The Intelligent Conversation and Communication Cloud (IC3) powers billions of real-time conversations across Microsoft Teams, Dynamics 365, and Azure Communication Services. The IC3 Data Platform team builds globally distributed data infrastructure supporting analytics, service reliability, business intelligence, and AI-powered experiences.
Our Universal Counter System (UCS) is a large-scale, multi-tenant streaming platform that transforms high-volume event streams into near-real-time counters for protection, reliability, and M365 product scenarios. UCS processes millions of events per second while supporting large-scale state management, low-latency serving, exactly-once processing, regional resiliency, and strong platform governance.
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build the next generation of UCS and the IC3 streaming platform. The engineer will apply large-scale, real-time data processing expertise to deliver reliable, high-performance services that support growing traffic and evolving customer needs.
Responsibilities include making architectural decisions spanning distributed systems, data processing, identity, privacy, compliance, reliability, and multi-tenant design; writing and reviewing production code; establishing engineering and operational standards; and guiding solutions from design through operation. Collaboration with engineering, product, security, compliance, and infrastructure teams will resolve ambiguous requirements and deliver scalable solutions.
The role will also advance AI-assisted engineering while maintaining human review, automated testing, security, and production-quality standards, mentoring engineers, and influencing technical direction across Microsoft organizational boundaries.
This position is based in Redmond, Washington and requires the employee be in the office a minimum of 3 days per week.
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.
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
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