Microsoft is looking to solve the problem of developing software, tools, and code to support design, infrastructure, and technology platforms, as well as commercial or end-user applications, by hiring a Software Engineer.
Requirements
- Proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Bachelor's Degree (or currently pursuing a degree) in Computer Science or related technical discipline, OR equivalent experience.
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- Master's Degree (or currently pursuing a degree) in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- Knowledge of debugging tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively flag issues.
- Understanding of system interactions and back-end dependencies.
- Experience with automation in production and deployment.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Collaborates with key stakeholders to define feature requirements, integrates feedback to enhance design, and establishes feedback loops for continuous improvement based on customer metrics.
- Learns and applies coding standards and best practices through code reviews, developing maintainable and extensible code with guidance.
- 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.
- 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.
- Develops and applies best practices for reliable code building, understands global and local regulations, customer scaling requirements, and support communication with key partners across Microsoft for user experience enhancement and partner needs.
- Ensures compliance with security, privacy, safety, and accessibility standards, leverages developer tools for code creation and debugging, contributes to automation in production and deployment, and proactively seeks knowledge to improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance at scale.
Other
- Bachelor's Degree (or currently pursuing a degree) in Computer Science or related technical discipline, OR equivalent experience.
- 1+ year(s) technical engineering experience.
- Must be eligible to work in the United States.
- Must be willing to work in a US-based role that is not tied to a specific Microsoft office location.
- Must be able to pass a background check.
