Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

17 Feb, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

19 Nov, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Cloud Services, Kubernetes, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Error Handling, Code Optimization, Microservices, System Architecture, Observability, Performance Improvement, Technical Documentation

Industry

Software Development

Description

We are looking for individuals who are passionate about working across all aspects of high-throughput, multi-tenant services. You should have the ability to design components thoughtfully, handle errors effectively, and write clean, well-structured code with comprehensive tests and strong maintainability. 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. Embody our culture and values 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 1+ year(s) experience building or operating distributed systems or cloud services in production environments. 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. Knowledge of Kubernetes networking configurations and security best practices. Experience building and operating large-scale Kubernetes environments. Understanding of modern software and systems architectures, including load-balancing, queueing, caching, distributed systems failure modes, and microservices.

Responsibilities

The Senior Software Engineer will design and implement high-throughput, multi-tenant services while collaborating with stakeholders to determine user requirements. They will also act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) to guide other engineers and monitor system performance.