Senior Software Engineer

Join the Microsoft Shopping team! We deliver smart shopping experiences with personalization, savings, transparency, and convenience, ensuring confidence in every purchase. Microsoft Shopping is your personal shopping companion, empowering customers to shop smarter and discover what they love. By harnessing the power of AI (artificial intelligence), LLMs (large language models) and LLM-based Agents, we are building best-in-class shopping experiences across Bing, MSN, and Edge. If you are passionate about transforming the online shopping experience for millions of users, this role is for you.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will contribute to the development of robust, distributed services, and performance-optimized systems that support Shopping services. You’ll collaborate across disciplines to design and implement features that enhance platform scalability, data modeling, and workflow automation.

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.

Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.