Are you an engineer who sees the big picture? Do you have the necessary insight to craft a vision and guide an engineering team in the right direction? Do you love finding simple, elegant solutions for complex technical problems? Do you want to learn new tech every day? If so, the Senior Software Engineer role in Microsoft CAP may be a good fit for you!
Developers are our customers, and we focus on understanding their requirements to enhance engineering productivity, security, and compliance. We consolidate multiple developer needs into strategic projects aligned with broader organizational objectives. By working closely with engineers, our team assists CAP engineers in addressing technical challenges and developing skills through direct collaboration. We facilitate cross-functional initiatives that support engineers in becoming more agile and deploying reliable code to production efficiently. This method has proven effective, and the team gains ongoing experience from these interactions.
In this role, you will work with Microsoft developer teams to plan and execute projects. Your main task is to identify customer needs and ensure effective solutions. As Software Developer, you will be responsible for helping to define the project vision and prioritize user stories in the backlog.
Successful Software Developers have good social skills, are passionate about working with cloud and AI technologies, have strong engineering backgrounds, know how to create and deliver high-impact reusable software artifacts, and are excited to get results with and through diverse teams of world-class software engineers. Our Engineers are self-starters who continually sharpen and deepen their hands-on technical skills, and they embrace ambiguity as an opportunity to lead and set direction for their team and themselves.
This role will require you to work with engineering teams across infrastructure, security and product services. You will be responsible for Define business requirements with input from key stakeholders
Driving engineering initiatives across engineering teams, status reporting and surfacing risks
Collaborating with different teams to surface health and hygiene of engineering systems through monthly services reviews
Engineering Systems Ops Support: This includes incident management, build pipeline monitoring and maintenance for engineering systems. Responsible for investigating and troubleshooting infrastructure-related build failures, engaging with partner teams for other failures, and assisting internal teams to integrate with pipeline components.
Support Geo Expansion: This involves supporting geo expansion work as part of the services owned by team.
Bringing clarity to the execution roadmap, risks and status of various engineering initiatives through engineering newsletters and other forums
Automating program management through Azure DevOps, GitHub and Power BI
Being plugged into various security and services infrastructure initiatives
Partnering with solution engineers to validate that designs meet or exceed business needs
Build project timelines, estimates of level of effort, manage milestones, and course correct projects to maintain schedules
Identify and mitigate project execution risks
Define acceptance criteria and partner with engineering to ensure that services align with requirements
Partner with business teams to ensure that appropriate change management plans exist for the release of larger features
Orchestrate planning, communications, testing, and stakeholder management across multiple teams
Verify that solutions implemented capture the benefits identified during planning
Provide ICM support and serve as an escalation point during outages or investigations
Drive constant improvement in the administration and documentation of tools
Help inform priorities of features based on knowledge of business and key stakeholders
Assist in the implementation of new technology as it becomes available
Identify opportunities for improvement in existing process and drive ideas to completion
Manage the permission structure for internal tools
Manage deployment of technology upgrades to existing systems
• Bachelor and/or Graduate degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent
• Experience: 8+ years of professional development.
• Technical Stack: C++, C#, big data, ML, NLP, and search technologies.
• Focus Areas: Strong analytical skills, customer engagement, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Cloud Services (Azure, AAD, O365).
• Security awareness (penetration testing, threat analysis).
• Background in computer engineering, preferably cloud services or DevOps and AI
• Prior experience with using Azure DevOps and GitHub for project tracking, or strong technical acumen to quickly learn new technologies
Preferred Qualifications:
• You should self-identify as a technical software engineer with a passion for cloud technologies and AI
• Previous experience as a Software Developer Engineer
• Track record of working closely with agile and diverse engineering teams
• Comfort with command line, PowerShell and OSS software
• Understanding of cloud, AI and other computing technologies, including business drivers and emerging trends across Microsoft and non-Microsoft technologies
• Experience working in geographically dispersed teams
• Self-starter who likes tackling new challenges and working independently
• Ability to build relationships with senior technical and business leaders
• Strong verbal and written communication ability including fluency in English
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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
