Senior Software Engineer - Windows Silicon and Hardware Enablement at Microsoft

, , United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

25 Feb, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

27 Nov, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Coding, Code Reviews, Debugging, Security Testing, Incident Management, Collaboration, Design Documentation, Performance Optimization, Test Coverage, Telemetry, Logging, Software Development, C, C++, C#, Java

Industry

Software Development

Description

Coding Reviews product code and test code to ensure it meets team standards, contains the correct test coverage, and is appropriate for the product or solution area. Brings insight to code reviews to help improve code quality, coaching and providing feedback to develop other engineers' skills. Conducts code reviews in a timely fashion that helps accelerate the pace of development on the team. Considers diagnosability, reliability, testability, and maintainability when reviewing code, and understands when code is ready to be shared or delivered. Applies and reviews for coding patterns, security risks, compliance issues, and best practices in code reviews, providing feedback on code to drive adherence to best practices. Uses automated source code analysis tools that are incorporated into the build/development process. Uses debugging tools, tests, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively verify assumptions while developing code before issues occur for products in production. Conducts incident retrospectives to identify root causes of problems, implements repair actions, and identifies mechanisms to prevent incident recurrence. Independently applies least-access principles, uses logging, telemetry, and other appropriate mechanisms to investigate issues while retaining privacy and security, and drives those practices across the team. Leads by example within the team to produce extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant code that adheres to design specifications. Continuously improves code performance, testability, maintainability, effectiveness, and cost, while learning about and accounting for relevant trade-offs. Applies metrics to drive code quality and stability. Applies appropriate coding patterns and best practices (e.g., leveraging state-of-the-art generative artificial intelligence [GenAI], approaches to source code organization, naming conventions). Identifies and escalates blockers or unknowns during the development process, communicates how they will impact timelines, and identifies strategies and/or opportunities to address them. Ensures test plans incorporate security testing to validate security invariants (including negative cases). Collaborates with other teams to reach common goals where dependencies and validation concerns overlap. Works across teams to resolve conflicts around dependency ownership and required work. Develops design documents that support user stories and other product requirements. Ensures system architecture and individual designs meet performance, scalability, resiliency, cost of goods sold (COGS), disaster recovery, and other requirements and expectations. Works with partner teams to ensure a project/sub-system of a product works well with the components of the partner team, ensuring proper end-to-end testing, live-site coverage, scalability, performance, and DRI escalation pathways are established before going live. Develops skills in tools outside current areas of expertise. Supports and/or adopts security standards for clear security code review practices for a project/sub-system of a product that align with design and engineering principles to raise the security hardening for both protections and detections. Guides other members for project estimation and escalates issues that might cause a delay. Ensures required security protections and detection processes are accounted for in planning. Ensures project plans adhere to security, privacy, and compliance requirements. Ensures all code for a product/solution is properly flighted for quicker mitigation of production incidents. Establishes a rollback plan for a project/sub-system of a product. Collaborates with internal partners (e.g., Data Science, product managers) to incorporate success and guard rail metrics for experimentation. Ensures that solutions are deployed safely, rolling out security-sensitive features only to applicable, relevant customers and scenarios to reduce the attack surface. Builds deployment infrastructure to allow developers' private builds for a project/sub-sub-system of a product to be tested in a production-like environment. Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of live site service and escalates appropriately. Enables secure operations, security monitoring, and integration with live site investigation activities. Collaborates with and guides appropriate internal (e.g., product manager, privacy/security subject matter expert, technical lead) and external (e.g. customer escalation team, public forums) stakeholders to determine and confirm customer/user requirements for a project/sub-section of a product/solution. Incorporates customer insights into future designs or solution fixes. Ensures unwritten requirements, such as appropriate continuous feedback loops that measure actionable, quantitative (e.g., customer value, usage patterns, solution performance) and qualitative (e.g., accessibility, globalization) indicators of value are incorporated. Understands, provides feedback on, and advocates for security and privacy needs of the customer who will be using the project/sub-section of a product/solution. 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. 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.

Responsibilities

The Senior Software Engineer will conduct code reviews, ensuring code quality and adherence to best practices while mentoring other engineers. They will also collaborate across teams to ensure system architecture meets performance and security requirements.