Microsoft's Office Growth and Experiences (OGX) team is looking to improve the performance and reliability of Office applications on Apple platforms (iOS, Mac) to enhance user experience, support new features like Copilot, and maintain a competitive edge in the productivity software market.
Requirements
- 2+ years of industrial/production software design and coding experience in at least one variant of C (C, C++, Objective-C, Swift).
- 2+ years experience in performance profiling, optimization techniques and concurrency models, as well as experience in debugging and memory management.
- coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python
Responsibilities
- Executes and drives end-to-end efforts to improve performance and reliability of Office iOS apps, including design, coding, and extensive instrumentation.
- Analyzes heat map, identify hotspots, design solutions, and drive these improvements into production.
- Collaborates across disciplines (e.g., Product Management, Design, Test) and geographies, ensuring we deliver end-to-end solutions efficiently that satisfy our customers.
- Advocates for the needs of mobile devices—network constraints, battery life, memory usage, and platform-specific capabilities—helping shape product direction and user experience on iOS.
- Relies on telemetry and analytics to identify top performance and reliability issues.
- Continuously measures success by gathering and interpreting key metrics, using the data to inform ongoing improvements and future designs.
- Contributes to designing robust test coverage for performance scenarios.
Other
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check
- Effective communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and articulate complex technical concepts.
- Embody our culture and values.
