Senior Software Engineer

The Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agent, Power BI), is a rocket ship fueled by organizations across the globe investing in low-code/no-code development models to accelerate their digital transformation ambitions. 

Power Platform is a strategic new growth area for Microsoft, but more importantly, it is a disrupting technology. Power Platform gives “Citizen access” to a broad set of users in an enterprise, to create next generation business productivity software with a radically simplified development experience requiring minimal training. The platform will power the business applications and be the extensibility story for Office 365.   

Power Apps is at the forefront of this growth curve for low-code app developers. Within Power Apps, the Studio group is responsible for enabling users to build Apps in most efficient ways with minimal efforts. The full-stack team is responsible for several Power Apps authoring services, app designers, Dataverse maker experiences, the power platform UX stack, and integrations with platform components.   

The Power Apps Studio group is looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a passion to work on distributed services that provide the foundation for our authoring experiences at global scale.  As a member of the authoring services team, you will have the opportunity to design and build a scalable, durable, and fault-tolerant service architecture capable of delivering multi-player authoring experiences as well as dive deep into the internals of app composition including dataflow analysis, code generation, and the integration of our Power Fx expression language.    

The technology stack within the Studio group is as rich as it is diverse.   In addition to our authoring services team, our group includes the Power Fx language and compiler, a modern web engineering system comprised of GraphQL and React, as well as mature UI designers built on a variety of web frameworks.   As a part of this group you will have the opportunity to collaborate on cross-team projects that allow you to work across the full technology stack and deliver end-to-end solutions.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience coding with C#
  • OR equivalent work experience.
• 3+ years building applications and services on the Cloud (i.e. Azure, AWS, GCP)  

Other Qualifications:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background check 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with JavaScript, TypeScript or other front-end technologies (i.e. Redux/React, React Native)
• Experience designing programming languages and compilers
• Technical acumen combined with a curiosity to continue learning and better understand end user productivity experiences  
• Experience building multi-player distributed systems  

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• Engage in abstract technical problem-solving and solution design
• Present design proposals and align delivery with partner teams
• Implement technical solutions to include code, configuration, and deployment plans
• Instrument, measure, and monitor service reliability and performance
• Improve developer productivity, establish coding/design patterns, and increase testability of existing systems
• Contribute to ongoing service operations and participate in the 24/7 on-call rotation