Software Engineer

Overview

Does pioneering new and innovative ways to collect and showcase key customer data sound exciting to you? Are you passionate about data and do you feel we have been missing the opportunity to be more data-informed at Microsoft? Do you want to contribute to an effort that is one of the most critical for the future success of Microsoft and E+D? If so, the Insights, Data Engineering & Analytics (IDEAs) team might be an excellent place for you to grow your career. Be part of the team building platform services handling millions of users and exabytes of data. This is not just some large-scale web service: the implementation ranks among the world’s largest and state-of-the-art distributed systems, spanning across data centers around the world. The Insights, Data Engineering & Analytics team’s goal is to champion a data-informed culture; to inspire and enable the entire E+D organization to make more informed decisions through data. We see this effort as a huge opportunity to provide information to the organization that will improve efficiency, empowerment, and help Microsoft win in the critical cloud business sector.

Responsibilities

The team is responsible for building solutions that accelerate growth across Microsoft’s Experiences + Devices (E+D) and SCIM portfolios, enabling programmability to unlock new customer scenarios. Driven by our commitment to helping businesses grow, we focus on providing partners with efficient tech product to run their growth campaigns. This includes designing and implementing intelligent capabilities using AI models and services to enhance developer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver smarter integrations. We also build high-quality, performant, and secure software components that power programmable experiences across Microsoft 365 and the broader E+D ecosystem.

For this, we are looking at Software engineers who could lead various efforts across both backend and front-end systems. Someone who believes in simplifying experiences and making our systems performant while they build new capabilities in the system is an ideal fit

As a fullstack engineer, your key responsibilities would include

• Learn and apply modern technologies, frameworks, and internal platforms to contribute to the team’s services under guidance from senior engineers.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of well-scoped features or components by following existing architectural patterns and design guidelines.
• Write unit tests and integration tests for owned code, and validate changes against defined acceptance criteria.
• Produce clean, readable, and maintainable code while fixing bugs, making small optimizations, and refactoring with mentorship and code review feedback.
• Follow established coding standards, best practices, and security guidelines; proactively address feedback from code reviews.
• Assist in improving operational reliability by following runbooks, monitoring dashboards, and responding to production issues with support from the team.
• Collaborate effectively with teammates and partner engineers by communicating progress, blockers, and learnings in a timely manner.
  
  

Qualifications

• A computer science background (BS degree or equivalent experience).   
• High quality software design & development experience of 2+ years.  
• Strong coding skills in C++, C#, Java. Any language experience is fine if you are detail-focused with strong design principles and implementation skills.  
• 2+ years of experience with modern web technologies such as JavaScript, Node.js, and React. 
• Experience working collaboratively with a team of engineers and a strong passion for learning.
• Knowledge of modern engineering practices like automated deployments with integrated quality gates and experience working with modern version control systems like Git
  
  

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.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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