Microsoft is looking to hire Software Engineers to develop software, tools, and code for design, infrastructure, and technology platforms, as well as commercial or end-user applications. The role involves creating and implementing extensible and maintainable code, partnering with stakeholders to define user requirements, and ensuring the quality, security, privacy, safety, and accessibility of solutions.
Requirements
- Proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- Learns and applies coding standards and best practices through code reviews, developing maintainable and extensible code with guidance.
- Utilizes debugging tools to proactively and reactively address issues in product features, ensuring code quality and reliability.
- Supports the identification of dependencies and design documentation for product features, learns about system interactions and back-end dependencies, and contributes to architectural processes under guidance.
- Produces code to test hypotheses for technical solutions and assists with technical validation efforts.
- Contributes to data analysis and feedback integration for product engineering decisions, acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for monitoring and restoring system functionality within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe.
Responsibilities
- Develop software, tools and code to be used in support of design, infrastructure, and technology platforms as well as commercial or end-user applications.
- Create and implement extensible and maintainable code for a product, service, or feature.
- Partner with stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature and consider a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes.
- Collaborate with others to create a clear and articulated plan for testing, assuring quality of solutions, while applying knowledge of debugging tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively flag issues.
- Learn about customer scaling requirements and the application of best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations, while ensuring the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility.
- Learns to review and break down work items into tasks with stakeholder collaboration, provide estimations, and escalate delays, while also supporting feature deployments to customers, considering user and service impacts, and adhering to best deployment practices for safety.
- Utilizes debugging tools to proactively and reactively address issues in product features, ensuring code quality and reliability.
Other
- This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential - and excitement for the journey ahead.
- We’re a company of learn-it-alls rather than know-it-alls and our culture is centered around embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day.
- 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.
- Please note this application is only for roles based in our Redmond, Washington office.
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.
