Senior Software Engineer | MS Planner
MicrosoftCanada1 day ago
Full-timeEngineering, Information Technology
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Microsoft’s Path team empowers customers to move seamlessly from Idea → Plan → Done, delivering collaborative work management solutions across Microsoft Project, Planner, To Do, Whiteboard, and Visio. We are building the Future of Work by leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and Agentic AI to create intelligent, connected experiences that drive productivity across Microsoft 365.
As part of this vision, we are transforming Microsoft Planner into a high-scale, unified work management platform. This foundational effort will eliminate complexity, streamline user experiences, and enable AI-driven productivity for millions of users worldwide.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Path team, you’ll partner with stakeholders to translate business goals into engineering plans and execute them with a relentless focus on security, reliability, and customer satisfaction.
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
Required Qualifications:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
Find Additional Pay Information Here
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 22, 2025.
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.
As part of this vision, we are transforming Microsoft Planner into a high-scale, unified work management platform. This foundational effort will eliminate complexity, streamline user experiences, and enable AI-driven productivity for millions of users worldwide.
Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Path team, you’ll partner with stakeholders to translate business goals into engineering plans and execute them with a relentless focus on security, reliability, and customer satisfaction.
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
- Solve complex challenges in distributed systems: geo-replication, disaster recovery, data migration, and work distribution.
- Collaborate in an agile environment, interacting with major Office 365 teams to build cross-service integrations and leverage expertise in product features; partner with stakeholders and managers to drive workgroup project plans, release plans, and work items.
- Partner with Program Management to design, implement, test, and iterate features for 10x growth in usage.
- Ensure secure, high-quality product delivery, overseeing system architecture and code quality.
- Champion Live Site culture, ensuring reliability and customer delight and mentor engineers, shaping the vision for agentic AI-powered work management.
- Seek new knowledge, adapt to trends, and apply technical solutions and patterns to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance across products, driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
- Embody Microsoft’s culture and values in all aspects of work.
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.
- 4+ years of full-stack experience developing distributed web service applications with highly concurrent server-side code.
- 3+ years experience with NOSQL databases and high volume / throughput web applications and their designs
- 3+ years experience with C++
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of experience creating, releasing, and evolving large commercial software components or products at scale.
- Experience collaborating across teams to deliver complete features and end-to-end customer experiences.
Find Additional Pay Information Here
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 22, 2025.
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.
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