Senior Software Engineer - Windows Incubation team

Are you interested in shaping the future of personal computing with a small team working with a startup mindset? Join the Windows Incubation team to design and build new Cloud streaming experiences!  

Senior Software Engineer -Windows Incubation team

We are a small, distributed, and growing team primarily based out of Redmond, WA. As a Senior  Software Engineer on the Windows Incubation team, you will build with the latest advances in the Windows platform, OS/silicon integration, cloud/client computing and Web UI development. You will partner with Product Management and Design to develop ideas to solve customer problems, and prototypes to learn from. Together with your team, you will design and implement innovative solutions to some of the most complex problems. You are open and adaptable, ready to dive into and learn and/or contribute to diverse codebases and technologies. You will contribute to engineering systems, testing, and tools to improve the team's efficiency. You will use telemetry and data to learn of the customer experience and adapt the product accordingly.  

If you thrive on solving problems by building, learning and iterating in a collaborative environment, this is the role for you! We offer in-office, remote and partial remote work arrangements to support your preferred work style

By applying to this up to 100% remote role based in U.S., while remote work is possible, relocation to the U.S. does not apply/is not provided for the role.

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.    
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.    
• Leads by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable. Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).    
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.    
• 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.    
• 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.

Qualifications

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 experience developing Operating System components OR Windows applications  
• 2+ years of C++ development experience

Other Requirements

Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that 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

• Experience with Operating system or Windows Application development in C++ 

• Experience with Web development using TypeScript, HTML, CSS and Web Components  

• Experience with hardware acceleration to optimize software performance  

• Experience using telemetry and data to drive investment and shipping decisions

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 18, 2024.

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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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