Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

19 Feb, 26

Salary

203900.0

Posted On

21 Nov, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Software Development, Coding, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Media Development, Networking Programming, Multi-threaded Systems, Cloud Services, Large Scale Server Application, Debugging, Refactoring, Observability

Industry

Software Development

Description

- 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. Required Qualifications: - 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. - 4+ years of industrial experiences in software development. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience with media development (encode/decode/mux), familiar with open-source media library, such libav, FFMPEG. - Experience with programming for networking, multi-threaded systems, preferably in streaming and/or real-time media development. - Experience with cloud services or networking programming or large scale server application. Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $114,400 - CAD $203,900 per year.

Responsibilities

The Senior Software Engineer collaborates with stakeholders to determine user requirements and drives the development of design documents. They also create, implement, optimize, and debug code to improve performance and maintainability.