Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft is a global engineering organization that works directly with customers to leverage the latest technologies. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and deliver solutions using modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies, collaborating with a cross-functional team to solve business problems and contribute to open source.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• Embodies our culture and values

Requirements:

• 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
• Microsoft is unable to sponsor a work visa for this role due to the nature of the role's job duties
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR 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
• Enjoy travel and are comfortable with travel up to 25%