New 
Senior Software Engineer - OneDrive Photos Platform Services
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Aug 21, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe OneDrive Photos and Mobile (PhoMo) team puts the world's memories at people's fingertips - helping them rediscover life's best moments and making billions of photos searchable, meaningful, and delightful to revisit. You'll join the team that powers the intelligence behind photo search and memories in OneDrive, building experiences that bring both personal nostalgia and cutting-edge AI together. Our work touches millions of people daily, across every device they own.As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you'll architect and evolve the large-scale services that index, understand, and curate photos for our customers. You'll integrate state-of-the-art AI into production systems, partner closely with mobile and client teams to deliver end-to-end experiences, and drive technical decisions that span cloud service design, scalability, and performance. This opportunity will allow you to shape AI-powered features used worldwide, deepen your expertise in large-scale distributed systems, and have direct impact on how customers experience their memories.Our stack includes C#/ASP.NET for backend services, SQL and Azure Blob Storage for data, and integrations with a wide range of Azure services, cutting-edge AI models, and modern frameworks. 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.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborates with product managers, architects, and partner teams to define technical requirements, dependencies, and solution designs for large-scale, highly available backend services supporting OneDrive Photos experiences.Designs and implements distributed, cloud-based services on Azure that process, store, and serve petabyte-scale photo and video content with high reliability, security, and performance.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) for critical services, driving root cause analysis, incident mitigation, and continuous improvements in reliability and scalability.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. | |