Senior Software Engineer

The Developer Productivity Services team delivers a fast growing, Azure service that helps drive enterprises to move to the cloud by providing a streamlined, self-service, and cost optimized solution.  We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us take the next step in our evolution by delivering a standalone SaaS service that delivers high quality cloud workstations and environments to developers.

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We are passionate about every detail of the end user experience. This includes simplicity of function, automation, performance, reliability and security.  The right candidate for this role will be motivated to build great software that meets these challenges at cloud scale.

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

• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions.
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.
• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.
• Develop engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
• Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.

Other

• Embody our Culture  &  Values 

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.

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:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Scienc