New 
Senior Software Engineer - Real-Time Communications
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 05, 2025 | |
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OverviewWe want you to come help us design and build the future of Real-Time Communications!We are building a new RTC platform from the ground up. We're aiming to support emerging scenarios demanded by a modern, remote world, breaking the mold of the traditional "conference call". This includes, but is not limited to, powering multi-modal communications between humans and AI. We need a Senior Software Engineer- Real Time Communications to join our team.We work with state-of-industry tools and technology, like Rust and Kubernetes. And we engage with the open-source community, and collaborate with other giants in the RTC industry. Are you excited by high-scale, high-performance distributed systems? Are you passionate about real-time media scenarios? Do you want to work with and/or contribute to the most modern technology components? This is your chance!Building and running services at scale for Microsoft 365 for hundreds of million consumer and enterprise users is very challenging, but it is a lot of fun and rewarding. We are looking for an engineer to help us do just that to power and deliver on IC3's mission. This opportunity will allow you to make a broad positive impact across many critical IC3 domains such as chat, audio/video calling, meetings, service and data engineering, and service management.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.
ResponsibilitiesParticipate with Architects and other team members on holistic system design.Lead the design, development, deployment, and operation of components of a high reliability, global scale real-time communication platform.Create and improve systems and processes to raise the reliability and quality of media services to the next level.Collaborate with people across Microsoft and in the industry to bring innovation to our products.Influence the engineering culture to strive for a clean architecture, sound engineering practices, and a growth mindset. | |