Senior Software Engineer

Are you excited about building innovative software services that power cutting-edge productivity tools? Do you have experience developing scalable, reliable, and intelligent distributed systems? Are you eager to make an impact by contributing to products used by millions of people worldwide?

As an Senior Software Engineer in the OPG team, you will contribute to the design and implementation of intelligent backend solutions by applying both software engineering and AI skills. In this role, you will work on high-scale, distributed systems that enable advanced productivity features for users across the globe. You will collaborate with a diverse group of engineers, PMs, and designers, and work closely with other teams across Microsoft to deliver robust, efficient, and secure services in the Microsoft 365 and Azure ecosystem to meet OPG's (Office Product Group) core service needs. If you are passionate about service architecture, scalability, and delivering high-quality solutions, we’d love to have you join our team.

In this role, you are expected to demonstrate strong software engineering fundamentals -including coding, testing, and deployment - while integrating and optimizing AI models and frameworks. You will contribute to delivering solutions that are reliable, impactful, and innovative, with mentorship and guidance from more senior team members.

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.

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Own quality of your code and fully leverage AI development tools to accelerate development
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

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:

• Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 
• Proven ability to design and develop loosely coupled, componentized, and unit-tested software. 
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and understand key business needs in line with competing priorities and apply the right technology and implementation to the solution. 
• Demonstrated strength to quickly get up-to-speed and be productive on new technical domains and are comfortable in dealing with ambiguity. 
• Analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills