Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Azure Edge + Platform (E+P) is a globally distributed team of engineers, architects, program managers, product managers, business program managers, business administrators, user experience researchers and designers who are responsible for the platform for Microsoft and for delivering Microsoft’s edge vision. We create the most reliable and trustworthy OS and platform services to empower Microsoft and our customers to achieve more. We unlock the next wave of opportunity at the edge through an at-scale ecosystem driving widespread adoption of our Microsoft cloud services. 

Come work on the foundations of driver signing and publishing at Microsoft with Driver Servicing. Joining Driver Servicing means you will utilize your engineering expertise to improve critical infrastructure that keeps businesses running through the delivery of secure, quality drivers across the Windows ecosystem. We are a team that empowers its engineers to innovate and solve difficult problems in creative ways.

As a senior software engineer in Driver Servicing, your responsibilities include creating new features for and maintaining highly available, resilient systems and services. You will evaluate requirements, estimate development costs, design and implement the software, and resolve outstanding bugs. Also, you will be able to work on building data pipelines and leverage data to make data driven business decisions. Our team operates under Scrum principles and you can help improve our engineering environment through these processes. You will drive business value by working collaboratively with your teammates and other organizations within Microsoft. Our team believes in giving everyone the opportunity to meet their professional goals. You will have many pathways to improve your engineering skills and direct your career trajectory as you see fit. This role is flexible in that you will be able to partner with your Manager to define the way that you’d like to work, whether that is in the office or from home.We are looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer to join our team.

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

• Works with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements for a set of features. Begins to leverage a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. Incorporates appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value.
• Contributes to processes for the architecture of a product/solution feature and helps to create proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans, with technical leadership from others. Provides initial reactions and input to architects. Begins to own solutions for architecting of solutions, following technical leadership as applicable. Contributes to the development of design documents for designs or User Stories with oversight, and determines the technology that will be leveraged and how it will interact. Escalates and shares findings from investigations with the team and owns some design decisions. Helps to assure system architecture meets security and compliance requirements and expectations.
• Creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests (e.g., unit tests). Adds new tests, removes antiquated tests, and aggregates tests to improve tests in the feature area. Helps to drive efforts for augmenting test cases and ensures that the solution area has good test coverage. Helps to integrate automation features when planning for testing.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable. Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable. Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects, and understands when the code is ready to be shared and delivered. Applies coding patterns and best practices to write code.
• Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Identifies solutions and mitigations to simple issues and complex issues when applicable impacting performance or functionality of Live Site services and escalates as necessary.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interrupti