Senior Software Engineer

Collaborates with and guides appropriate internal and external stakeholders to determine and confirm customer/user requirements for a project/sub-section of a product/solution. Leads discussions for and owns the architecture of a products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture. Identifies dependencies and incorporates them into the development of design documents for a product, application, service or platform. Leads by example within the team to produce extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant code that adheres to design specifications. Leverages existing deployment frameworks to ensure efficiency. Drives efforts to integrate logging and instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms, and for allowing monitoring and investigating security-related concerns and scenarios for both live and A/B experiments for products, services, and offerings. Drives efforts to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility. Applies best practices to build code based on well-established methods and secure design principles while also applying best practices for new code development and formal validation of security invariants. As a Senior Software Engineer you will works with partner teams to ensure a project/sub-system of a product works well with the components of the partner team before going live.

The Sovereign Cloud team at M365 Core IDC is driving innovation in cloud infrastructure standardization, enabling secure, compliant, and scalable cloud solutions for regulated markets. Our mission is to deliver rapid, reliable, and standardized cloud buildouts, streamline deployment practices, and optimize runtime operations for Sovereign Clouds. As a software engineer on the Sovereign Cloud team, you'll have the opportunity to work on modernizing cloud buildouts and deployments at unprecedented scale, contribute to the evolution of standardized release platforms and compliance solutions, and develop AI- powered platform experiences that simplify complex operations. You'll collaborate with global teams across Azure, M365, and Enterprise Cloud, impacting foundational cloud services, and engage in continuous learning through knowledge sessions and hands-on experience.

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

• Coding: Coaches others to review code of a product to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft's quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution. Applies feedback to current and future iterations. Participates in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed. Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability when reviewing code and understands when code is ready to be shared or delivered. Applies and screens for coding patterns and best practices in reviews, and provides feedback on code to drive adherence to best practices.
• Design: Coaches others and leads discussions for architecture of products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans. Provides reactions, proposed solutions, and inputs to architects. Partially owns to provide solutions for architecting of solutions, with minimal technical oversight. Develops and mentors others in development of design documents for designs or User Stories, and determines the technology that will be leveraged and how it will interact. Coaches others and shares learnings and identified solutions from investigations with the team and owns for some design decisions. Coaches employees to consider, and assures system architecture meets security and compliance requirements and expectations.
• Engineering Excellence: Builds and maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers. Acts as a key contact for leadership to ensure alignment with partners' expectations. Builds partner teams across Microsoft (e.g., Xbox, Office) and their end goals for products to drive and achieve desirable user experiences and fitting dynamic needs of partners/customers through product development. Monitors project progress.
• Implement: Coaches others on deployment appropriate environments. Ensures the correct measures are in place to deploy products. Considers and accounts for the impact of build deployments on both users and other services. Is accountable for safe deployment practices for code and configuration. Coaches others and drives efforts to assure that solutions are deployed in a safe manner.
• Reliability and Supportability: Coaches others and drives efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, utility, and safety mechanisms. Drives sustainment of feedback loops from telemetry resulting in subsequent designs. Creates outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards.
• Understand User Requirements: Coaches and supports partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within teams. Leverages a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. Coaches incorporation of appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications –

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or related technical field AND 9+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• Experience in handling large and geo distributed software engineering projects, modularizing them into deliverables for the team, leading them towards quality delivery, and working closely with engineering partners across the globe
• Experience in building, shipping, and operating reliable system software preferably with experience in large scale high availability distributed systems in large/ complex organizations
• Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills.

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:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 9+ 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.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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