Senior Software Engineer

The Windows Cloud division is looking for a Senior Software Engineer that will help us take the Windows Cloud platform, as well as the Windows 365 Cloud PC and Azure Virtual Desktop business to the next level. 

Windows 365 Cloud PC (W365) and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) have recently been recognized as leaders in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Desktop as a Service (DaaS), two years in a row.  We continue to see expansion of these services and amazing adoption by enterprise and business customers. At its core, W365 and AVD provide business customers a modern, elastic, cloud-based Windows experience, and the ability to stay current in a simplistic and scalable manner. It has never been a more exciting time for us to scale this initiative!  

As a Senior Software Engineer in the W365 and AVD team, you will get an amazing opportunity to demonstrate leadership at both business and technology level. You will get to extend your knowledge of cloud computing, desktop virtualization, streaming technologies, and other technical areas including cloud-based management suites. You will be part of a team designing new platform capabilities involving virtualized compute, storage, networking, GPUs (Graphic Processing Units), core connectivity services and streaming protocols (such as RDP - Remote Desktop Protocol) for our products to enhance the value to our customer base. You will also be a part of an agile team working with experienced engineers and product managers that behave more like a technology startup. 

You will design and implement software components to enable and optimize the Windows 365 Cloud PC (W365) and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) service backend. You will help build cloud infrastructure services at scale to enable feature teams to increase the velocity at which they can safely deploy changes to production and monitor the effects of changes across the footprint. You will also analyze telemetry data to develop capacity planning models, identify patterns and trends that drive continuous improvement, and highlight opportunities to deploy automation to monitor and manage Windows Cloud services across sites. 

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/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience as a software engineer designing, implementing, and shipping cloud services or software products.

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.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience with distributed systems delivering large-scale, secure, and resilient cloud services 
• Demonstrated communication and collaboration skills 
• Broad experience and track record of working across teams to deliver shared solutions to complex problems 
• Ability to quickly ramp up, understand complex problems, and create solutions across many products 

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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 will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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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• Design, develop, and deliver the required software engineering that reduce operational burden by automating complex and repetitive tasks such as onboarding of system capabilities to newer data centers and upkeep of system capabilities in the existing sites 
• Own deployment, availability, reliability, performance and customer escalation targets for Critical Environment Telemetry solutions 
• Proactively identify and reduce issues through design, testing, and implementation of software-based solutions 
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product Management partners to translate customer, business, and technical requirements into architectural designs and feature releases 
• Drive efficiencies through software improvement and root cause analysis resulting in service delivery, maturity, and scalability 
• Drive continuous improvement on service quality and COGS (Cost of Good Sold)  efficiency. 
• Work within a highly skilled team of engineers to deliver revolutionary improvements to the system and scale them.