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Microsoft

Builds workplace software, PCs and cloud services

Senior Software Engineer

Systems Software EngineeringUpdated on Nov 13
Full-timeRemote in USA$119.8k - $261k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4 or more years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including C and C++, or equivalent experience.
  • Pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
  • A master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6 or more years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including C and C++, or a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 8 or more years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including C and C++, or equivalent experience.
  • Six or more years of experience with kernel development, embedded systems, hardware offloads, or virtualization.
  • Six or more years of experience with storage datapath performance, memory management, or device virtualization.
  • Four or more years of experience with a Cloud Service Provider, root cause analysis, or measurement and validation.
  • Two or more years of experience with performance tuning, measurement, and data analysis.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with stakeholders to derive scenarios and user requirements.
  • Drive identification of dependencies and development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
  • Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment.
  • Apply subject-matter expertise in product features and partner with stakeholders, such as project managers, to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
  • Act as a Designated Responsible Individual, guide other engineers by developing and following the playbook, monitor systems, products, or services on call for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alert stakeholders about status, and initiate actions to restore service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
  • Seek new knowledge and adapt to trends, technical solutions, and patterns to improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance, while driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
  • Design and develop solutions to onboard new hardware accelerators, processors, and transports, and deliver cluster-level performance improvements.
  • Work across the software development lifecycle, including operations, scaling, training, and support.

About the Company

Microsoft

Builds workplace software, PCs and cloud services

Microsoft builds workplace software, operating systems and cloud infrastructure for consumers, businesses and government agencies, from small organizations to global enterprises. Microsoft 365 combines Word and Excel with Teams communication and Copilot AI features, while Windows runs PCs and Surface supplies the company's own computers. Azure rents computing capacity, storage and databases to build and run web applications. Microsoft also sells Xbox consoles and games, collecting revenue through software licenses, subscriptions, usage charges and product sales. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Redmond, WA
Founded
1975

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