Software Engineer

at  Microsoft

Microsoft 365 is one of the fastest growing businesses in the company’s history that brings together the latest and greatest versions of the Office apps, intelligent cloud services, and world-class security. Microsoft 365 is truly the locomotive driving the company’s incredible growth in the cloud which empowers governments, enterprises, small businesses, and consumers with the world’s best productivity tools and services. The market opportunity is incredible and when combined with the AI powered Copilot, Microsoft 365 truly is an unbeatable solution.
The “Magic” team is responsible for building amazing experiences, breaking down language barriers, and delivering premium content to 2 billion people every year. Serving this many customers is a huge responsibility and a rare opportunity. Every single day you will get the chance to deploy code into large scale services that power experiences across billions of devices. Moreover, we are using the latest advances in AI and ML to drive intelligence into these experiences to make them engaging, personalized, and relevant. Stunningly cool and ground-breaking work.
We are searching for future Microsoft engineers who want to work on the latest technologies to build distributed systems at hyperscale. We have several roles open within the team across our portfolio of localization and content services. Backend engineering, frontend engineering, data engineering, etc. – we are hiring across all specialty areas. You will work in a small team of world-class engineers to build, extend, and modernize our services so that we can serve the world in localizing and delivering amazing M365 content to help customers achieve and do more.
You will have a unique opportunity to work with the latest cloud technologies and develop scalable Azure services using a mix of in-house and open-source technologies. This role has strong executive sponsorship, a lot of cross group work with other teams, and opportunity for technical leadership and advancement. Moreover, we are looking for someone not only technically strong but also collaborative and willing to contribute to the success of others. We have a strong culture internally and win as a team.
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.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Solid Object-Oriented Design and Programming skills.
• Technical competence and strong analytical skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Solid customer focus and understanding of the importance of live site engineering
• Solid written and oral communication skills
• Desirable experience in the following tech areas:
• Cloud framework: Azure, Service Fabric, Azure Search, Node.js.
• NoSQL data storage: DocumentDB, Cassandra.
• Web technologies: ReactJS, AngularJS, JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML, CSS
• Experience and interest in AI, ML, and NLP.

• Contributing to the design, implementation, testing and health of high scale services.
• Full stack development - UX and business logic across a broad set of features.
• Ensuring the availability and performance of live site and the satisfaction of our customers.
• Collaboration with multiple disciplines: PMs (Program Managers), UX designers, data analysts, software engineers, and partner teams to deliver end-to-end clean and responsive experiences.
• Improving services health using active alerting, monitoring, telemetry, etc.
• Investigating and prototyping features with modern technologies and frameworks.
• Using data to identify future product investments to drive up customer satisfaction or reduce cost.