Senior Software Engineer

Do you enjoy optimizing software through architectural, algorithmic, and low-level coding to squeeze the most out of hardware and to add new capabilities to the Windows and applications running on it? Our team works across the full stack, starting from our hardware partners to compiler to a range of OS and application feature teams. Our mission is to consistently deliver the best battery life and performance while maintaining high reliability and security. We build a deep understanding through telemetry analysis of real-world data, profiling and characterization of the system and applications and drive improvements across all boundaries.  Our work is data-driven with a sharp focus towards achieving excellence.

Our team’s goal is to enable reliable and performant experiences in Windows on a broad range of 1st and 3rd party devices from premium to the most basic.  Driving increasing customer satisfaction is our primary focus and passion.  Our team analyzes system wide performance (e.g., power, responsiveness, and footprint) and stability issues and fixes problems across team boundaries. We use our extensive telemetry and analytics system to understand both broad and high impact issues and build the tools and services that engineers across Windows use every day to pinpoint and fix tough bugs.  We'd like you along for the ride! 

We are looking for Senior Software Engineer.

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

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including  C, C++.
• A minimum of 4 years of experience developing software for shipping products. 

• Working knowledge of systems programming and OS resource management. 

• Experience with performance optimization including algorithmic, data structures, and locality. 

• Demonstrated experience using analytical, problem solving, and debugging skillsets.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, OR Python
  • OR equivalent experience

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. 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.

As a member of the team, Senior Software Engineer will use telemetry and profiling tools to understand application workloads and their platform usage, identify bottlenecks, and work with the team to evaluate optimizations, both immediate and long term, across the software/hardware stack. Your work will range from improving customer satisfaction along the dimensions of power, performance and reliability to delivering optimizations that allow us to continue to add features without growing the memory and storage requirements for in-market systems as well as new low-cost systems. This may include deliverables with immediate gains as well as long lead projects with our software/hardware partners. You will work appropriately with the development cycle on both design and implementation with a variety of feature teams from the core OS to application teams.  As features are deployed, you will use telemetry to help teams understand performance and battery life which customers are experiencing and drive improvements based on that.