Software Engineer

Job Description

Microsoft Teams is core to Microsoft's vision for intelligent communications and productivity pane into modern workplace. We are fast becoming the hub for teamwork in Office 365 with hundreds of thousands of organizations and tens of millions of users across the globe using Teams. Microsoft Teams now has 80+ M daily users, cementing it as the fastest growing business application in Microsoft history.

We are looking for a Software Engineer 2 to provide technical leadership and drive implementation of client release and feature flighting across multiple platforms, devices, and operating systems. Our infrastructure allows partner teams to deliver a new feature to millions of users in the order of minutes in an automated fashion. We utilize big data to understand customer usage, enable rapid detection and debugging of issues

Our culture is inclusive, casual and high energy; our team members come from diverse backgrounds, thrive through teamwork, and are grounded in our customer needs. The team collaboration space is going through rapid growth. People can learn new technologies and grow their career quickly. 
Microsofts 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

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Designs, develops and maintains engineering infrastructure, tools and services that powers the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) and feature flighting for Microsoft Teams across different clients/platforms.
• Builds tools/bots to improve developer productivity, contributes ideas to continuously improve our systems, and drives actionable feedback on code and product quality.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

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 technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript or Python. Experience with LLMs/SLMs, Azure PaaS & Services is a plus.
  
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Excellent problem-solving & debugging skills.
• Good track record of working with partner teams and a mindset to get things done the right way.
• Self-motivated with a strong drive for reaching across teams and organizations to make progress collaborative.
• Experience with LLMs/SLMs, Azure PaaS & Services, BotFramework.

 
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