Senior Software Engineer

Are you a great Software Engineer?  Are you interested  in working  on a product  that ships  new features every week?  Do you like working  on technology  problems  which  impact people  on a global scale?  

Microsoft Teams is a new application in the Office365 family. We believe  the modern  workspace is underserved  by the existing  software solutions and we are building  Microsoft Teams,  the new, truly modern  collaboration and productivity  hub  for the workspace. Microsoft Teams is also a platform  for ISVs to build  on and extend their  applications  into the 100M+  Office 365 user base. This is a v1 product and will provide  you with an opportunity  to work with  teams and technologies  across the company and beyond.  If you want to work in a startup-like  environment  with the desire  to move fast, this  may be the team for you.  

The Microsoft Teams product  group  is expanding  to India and will soon start a group  at India Development  Center in Bangalore. If the above excites you, then  Microsoft Teams would like to hear from you! We believe that making  data-driven  decisions  using  client and server  telemetry  provides  a huge  leap forward in understanding  customer’s  experiences  as well as identifying  product  gaps and  live site issues. What factors affect the quality  of the user  experience?  What drives user  engagement  and  how can we continuously  improve  it with data and analytics? How does a new feature impact  Office365 enterprise  adoption?  Our dev team is pushing  the envelope for how data is leveraged  and helping change  the way software is built; the  work you do will have a direct impact  in Microsoft and its current and future  line of products  and services. Our team is looking  for a passionate and motivated  technical lead engineer  to build  highly  scalable, performant  and  robust data pipelines  and reporting  services enabling  others to look for product  insights  in the ocean of data that we are collecting. Our  dev team is pushing  the envelope  for how data is leveraged  and helping  change the way software is built;  the work you do will have a direct impact  in Microsoft through  Teams and Office 365.  

Our team is looking for a passionate and motivated engineer with a passion to enable the best possible experiences to our customers. You are obsessed about users’ experience across a range of form factor surfaces. Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and a shifting landscape. Have experience with Azure or other cloud services, passionate about iterating fast, and getting the right design for our customers. With entrepreneurial spirit and a can-do attitude. Curious about machine learning, understand efficient data structures, familiar with algorithms and have a track record of shipping software-based services.  

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 or master's degree in computer science or a related field
• Exemplary design and problem-solving skills, with a proven track record of engineering excellence at scale
• 8+ years of experience in writing bug free code, covering all corner cases.
• Experience in web-based application development technologies and frameworks (with HTML5, JavaScript/TypeScript/ReactJS/AngularJS/Electron)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, curiosity and willingness to learn, share and improve.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn, share and improve
• Proven track record as a strong performer with significant direct technical contribution.
• Will apply modern UI design principles and ensure the best experience across all applications in the suite.

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:

• Experience  with Azure,  Exchange,  Office 365 services fabric or other large scale services.  
• Experience  in statistical data analysis  at web-scale.  
• Experience  in Telemetry  Dashboards  and  other user interface to present  results  of analytics.
• Excellent written  and verbal  communication  skills.  
• Curiosity  and willingness  to learn,  share and  improve.  
• Proven track record as a strong performer with significant direct technical contribution. 
• Will apply modern UI design principles and ensure the best experience across all applications in the suite. 
• Will Work with PM and UX to prototype and ship features on Microsoft Teams. 
• Are a thought leader and a change agent. 
• Are obsessed about great customer experiences and outcomes. 
• Believe technology can be a great enabler. 
• Are looking to be part of a diverse and inclusive team culture. 
• Are a great communicator, able to convey complex issues, ideas and concepts clearly. 

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.

• 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).
• 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.