Senior Software Engineer

As a team, we obsess about learning, diving deep into areas of opportunities, experimenting and use an evidence-based approach to turning opportunities into positive impact on performance of the product through collaboration.

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

• Identify opportunities for improvements through profiling, developing proofs of concepts, measuring impact to performance improvements across critical areas of our application
• Partner and collaborate with feature teams to help them to deliver high quality performant experiences
• Drive adoption of performance best practices, through consulting and presenting deep dives
• Track key performance metrics and their instrumentation, at build time as well as from production telemetry, investigate regressions
• Help shape vision for future performant architecture and patterns as the application evolves

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 industry programming, software development, and/or software engineering experience.
  
• Great understanding of React internals, including rendering, performance and state management.
  
• Proficiency in React, React ecosystem and best practices, significant web app development and debugging experience.
• Solid understanding of web tech - JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3.
• Prior experience in solving performance problems in complex web apps.

• 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:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Good understanding of browser internals, rendering lifecycle, and critical rendering path.
  
• Proficiency with React Profiler/React Render Tracker.
  
• Solid experience with Edge DevTools and debugging techniques.
  
• GraphQL experience.
  
• Experience solving challenging problems and cross team/organization collaboration skills.
• Curiosity to dive deep, continuously learn and experiment.
  
• Passion for collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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

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