Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

New York, New York, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

21 Mar, 26

Salary

234700.0

Posted On

21 Dec, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Automation, Orchestration, Data Analytics, Microservices, Workflow Execution, SDK, Testing, Monitoring

Industry

Software Development

Description

Overview With Azure and Microsoft’s ever growing server capacity needs, the Microsoft Capacity Infrastructure Service (CIS) Platform Team aims to provide a worldclass platform and service to provide automation, orchestration, and in-depth metrics to facilitate Microsoft’s server capacity needs. The Runtime and Packaging team under the Microsoft CIS Platform Team is hiring experienced engineers to join a diverse engineering team that interfaces with 100s of service teams and partners across Microsoft. As a Senior Software Engineer in the Microsoft CIS Platform Team you will help develop a platform to automate hardware and devices provisioning/de-provisioning functions, datacenter operations, business processes, all through microservices, and deliver data analytics end to end. This will enable Microsoft services to manage capacity in a consistent, efficient, and secure way. This opportunity will allow you to work with teams across Azure and Microsoft, hone your engineering skills working on large-scale distributed systems, and contribute to the fastest growing cloud platform on the market. The Runtime team is responsible for providing a highly scalable workflow execution engine, robust workflow authoring and software development kit (SDK) experience, and tools and automation to facilitate testing and rollout of workflows across the Platform. This position is 100% fully remote, and candidates can choose to work fully from home, the office, or a hybrid of the two. 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. Responsibilities - Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario, often working cross team and cross organazations with our partners. - Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents to solve complex problems or provide robust features for the 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 our service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore our 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. Qualifications Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ yearstechnical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python - OR equivalent experience. - 4+ years of experience working on backend systems. - 3+ years of experience working on Cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP) and large distributed systems. 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: - 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 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 equivalent experience. Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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 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.

Responsibilities

The Senior Software Engineer will collaborate with stakeholders to determine user requirements and drive the development of design documents for complex problems. They will also create, implement, optimize, and debug code to improve performance and maintainability.