Senior Software Engineer - Windows

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Location:

United States, Washington, Redmond Salary: USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year

Employment type:

Full-Time Work site: 3 days / week in-office

Role type:
Individual Contributor Travel:
Less than 25%
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Software Engineering Discipline:
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Microsoft Overview In  Windows Experiences, we are accelerating innovation, strengthening brand preference, and driving growth across Microsoft services and platforms. As we deliver on many key priorities, we are committed to delivering available, reliable, resilient, secure, observable, and cost-effective applications across our broader organization.

Our culture of growth mindset and empowerment are central to who we are and how we work. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you'll help shape and influence adoption of best practices and standards for Windows services, research and develop solutions to complex technical challenges, and have opportunities to make a huge impact on the experiences we continuously deliver to millions of customers around the world.

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 Partner across multiple product groups to apply subject-matter expertise in distributed systems design practices, interactions between cloud technology layers and components, basic dependencies at scale, and the code that defines infrastructures.

Lead by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.

Collaborate with a team of architects to research, define, and prove standards and best practices that can be applied to improve system, platform, and/or product development and operations across the business.

Drive continuous improvements in the architecture, code, features, operations and comprehensive use scenarios of products by leveraging end-to-end technical expertise.

Provide technical leadership in planning, reviews, and meetings throughout product development and operations cycles.

Qualifications Required/

Minimum 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#,  Rust or Java.

OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

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:

7+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration.

OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems engineering.

OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems engineering.

Awareness of, and ability to reason about, modern software & systems architectures

Previous experience as a technical lead that can drive engineering solutions. Proven ability to design and develop loosely coupled, componentized, and durable software that can be easily…