Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and drive implementation of client release and feature flighting across multiple platforms, devices, and operating systems. Our infrastructure allows partner teams to deliver a new feature to millions of users in the order of minutes in an automated fashion. We utilize big data to understand customer usage, enable rapid detection and debugging of issues

Our culture is inclusive, casual and high energy; our team members come from diverse backgrounds, thrive through teamwork, and are grounded in our customer needs. The team collaboration space is going through rapid growth. People can learn new technologies and grow their career quickly.

About us:

• We’re a savvy group of generalizing specialists; we blend years of software engineering expertise with some of the newest and most popular tools, frameworks and methodologies to empower an entire organization to build great software.
• We love open source; grunt, gulp, yarn, and node are part of our everyday vocabulary, but we’re not dogmatic about technologies – the best tool for the job is always the right tool.
• We pride ourselves in building smart systems and tools which make our fellow engineers more productive every day and enables them to ship high quality code to our customer continuously.
• We use Teams to ship Teams. Our tools are integrated into the product itself.
  
  

About you:

• You’re familiar with CI/CD practices and have an opinion on how to apply them at scale.
• You have a strong sense of craftsmanship in the solutions you create and an idea about how software should and should not be built & released.
• You’re not afraid to push code to production.
• You believe that a task worth doing is a task worth automating.
• You seek out opportunities to learn new skills and technologies.
• You think ahead and build for the future and aren’t afraid of ambiguous challenges.
• You have a history of driving successful cross-organizational initiatives.

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 technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  
  • OR equivalent experience.
    
• Experience with JavaScript frameworks like React.
  
• Experience operationalizing and supporting services.

Other Requirements:

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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience.
• AI knowledge and experience
• Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.
• Data driven, customer focused, and organized.
• Self-motivated with a strong drive for reaching across teams and organizations to make progress collaboratively.

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.

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• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Designs, develops, and maintains engineering infrastructure, tools, and services that power the CI/CD for Microsoft Teams across different clients/platforms and builds tools/bots and leverages AI to improve developer productivity, contribute ideas to continuously improve our systems, and drive actionable code and product quality feedback
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.