Senior Software Engineer (Commerce Platforms)

In this role, you will help design, build, and operate the next generation of commerce solutions by developing distributed systems, cloud-native services, AI-powered capabilities, data platforms, and mission-critical transaction systems that support customers, partners, and employees worldwide.

You will work across engineering, product, research, and data teams to solve complex technical challenges, modernize commerce experiences, improve operational excellence, and deliver solutions at global scale.

This role requires you to be onsite 3 days a week in Microsoft's office in Charlotte, NC.

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

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate scalable, secure, and highly reliable distributed systems and cloud-native services.

• Develop commerce platform capabilities supporting AI solutions, financial systems, payments, offers, pricing, catalogs, data models, and transaction processing platforms.

• Build AI-powered experiences, intelligent automation, agentic workflows, and data-driven capabilities that improve customer and business outcomes.

• Develop and maintain APIs, backend services, cloud platforms, data pipelines, and full-stack applications.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, define technical approaches, and deliver high-quality solutions.

• Create and own technical designs, architecture proposals, implementation plans, and engineering documentation.

• Drive platform modernization initiatives that improve scalability, resiliency, observability, security, compliance, and developer productivity.

• Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to improve development efficiency, code quality, testing, deployment, and operational excellence.

• Improve live-site health through monitoring, telemetry, automation, incident response, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.

• Champion engineering excellence through secure development practices, code reviews, automation, and high operational standards.

• Partner across engineering, product, program management, research, and data teams to deliver end-to-end customer-focused solutions.

• Mentor engineers, contribute to team culture, and foster a collaborative, inclusive environment.

• 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.

Other Requirements

• 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.

Additional or preferred qualifications

• Professional experience building software systems, cloud services, distributed applications, or platform technologies.
• Proficiency in C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, C++, or similar programming languages.
• Experience building distributed systems, microservices, APIs, cloud-native services, or large-scale platforms.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Experience with full-stack development, backend engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure services, or data-driven applications.
• Experience building AI-powered solutions, intelligent automation, LLM-enabled applications, agentic workflows, or leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Familiarity with financial systems, revenue platforms, payments, commerce platforms, pricing systems, catalog management, data modeling, or transaction processing systems.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, monitoring, telemetry, observability, and DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of security, privacy, accessibility, reliability, and Responsible AI principles.
• Analytical, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• Exposure to AI/ML/Data sciences or data-driven systems, including working with models, data pipelines, or intelligent features

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.

Microsoft is a global technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We develop, license, and support a wide range of software products, services, and devices that help individuals and businesses realize their full potential.

Our flagship products include the Microsoft 365 productivity cloud, Windows operating system, Azure cloud platform, and Dynamics 365 business applications. We are also a leader in areas such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, developer tools, and gaming through Xbox and Game Pass.

With operations in more than 190 countries and over 220,000 employees worldwide, Microsoft is committed to responsible innovation, inclusive economic growth, and sustainability. We work closely with governments, industries, and communities to ensure that technology serves the public good and helps address some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

As we celebrate our 50th anniversary in 2025, we continue to look forward—investing in AI, cloud, and quantum computing to shape the future of work, education, and society at large scale.