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JOB TITLE: Senior Staff Engineer, Productivity
The Senior Staff Engineer, Productivity provides technical direction and leads the engineering of secure, resilient Microsoft 365 and AI capabilities. This role involves translating complex business needs into maintainable technical designs, establishing architecture standards, and mentoring engineers across cross-functional teams. Key responsibilities include leading the implementation of M365 Copilot, managing tenant configurations for Exchange Online and SharePoint Online, and developing automation for infrastructure as code. The position requires hands-on expertise with PowerShell, .NET, C#, Python, Java, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript, alongside Microsoft Graph APIs, Git, and CI/CD pipelines. The engineer solves critical problems regarding data boundaries, responsible AI controls, and identity integrations within a highly regulated enterprise environment, ensuring platform reliability, security, and operational readiness through telemetry and proactive capacity planning.
What does a Engineer earn in California?
Median $199850 from 102 postings across 29 companies.
Lead the architecture, design, and engineering of enterprise Microsoft 365 and AI platform capabilities.
Translate complex business requirements into technical designs, delivery plans, and reusable patterns.
Establish standards for secure design, maintainability, reliability, performance, and operational readiness.
Perform hands-on software engineering using PowerShell, APIs, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD tooling.
Design and govern tenant configurations for Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, and Microsoft Graph.
Lead technical strategy and governance for M365 Copilot, including grounding, data boundaries, and responsible AI controls.
Drive service maturity through telemetry, capacity planning, problem management, and post-incident analysis.
Mentor engineers and communicate complex technical topics to business partners and executive leadership.
What we're looking for
Must have at least 10+ years of professional engineering, platform, infrastructure, or software development experience.
Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Must have extensive experience engineering and operating complex enterprise platforms across architecture, automation, integration, testing, deployment, and reliability.
Must have strong proficiency in PowerShell, .NET, C#, and at least one of Python, Java, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
Must have advanced administration and engineering experience across Microsoft 365 with deep expertise in core workloads and tenant governance.
Must have hands-on Microsoft Copilot experience and working knowledge of generative AI, agents, retrieval-augmented generation, and responsible AI.
Must have a strong understanding of Azure, modern identity, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, certificates, secrets, APIs, networking, and zero-trust principles.
Must have demonstrated success influencing across teams, leading architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and communicating with technical and executive audiences.
Golang
Kubernetes
Microservices
Distributed Systems
Workflow Orchestration
Durable Execution
Platform as a Service
Observability
Developer Tooling
Fault Tolerance
Java
Python
Go
JavaScript
TypeScript
Swift
GenAI
Microservices
SRE
Distributed Systems
API Design
Full-Stack
SPA Frameworks
Data Processing
SLO Management
Solution Architecture