Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Teams is core to Microsoft's vision for intelligent communications and productivity pane into modern workplace. We are fast becoming the hub for teamwork in Office 365 with hundreds of thousands of organizations and tens of millions of users across the globe using Teams. Microsoft Teams now has 80+ M daily users, cementing it as the fastest growing business application in Microsoft history.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to provide technical leadership and drive implementation of client release and feature flighting across multiple platforms, devices, and operating systems. Our infrastructure allows partner teams to deliver a new feature to millions of users in the order of minutes in an automated fashion. We utilize big data to understand customer usage, enable rapid detection and debugging of issues

Our culture is inclusive, casual and high energy; our team members come from diverse backgrounds, thrive through teamwork, and are grounded in our customer needs. The team collaboration space is going through rapid growth. People can learn new technologies and grow their career quickly.

About us:

• We’re a savvy group of generalizing specialists; we blend years of software engineering expertise with some of the newest and most popular tools, frameworks and methodologies to empower an entire organization to build great software.
• We love open source; grunt, gulp, yarn, and node are part of our everyday vocabulary, but we’re not dogmatic about technologies – the best tool for the job is always the right tool.
• We pride ourselves in building smart systems and tools which make our fellow engineers more productive every day and enables them to ship high quality code to our customer continuously.
• We use Teams to ship Teams. Our tools are integrated into the product itself.
  
  

About you:

• You’re familiar with CI/CD practices and have an opinion on how to apply them at scale.
• You have a strong sense of craftsmanship in the solutions you create and an idea about how software should and should not be built & released.
• You’re not afraid to push code to production.
• You believe that a task worth doing is a task worth automating.
• You seek out opportunities to learn new skills and technologies.
• You think ahead and build for the future and aren’t afraid of ambiguous challenges.
• You have a history of driving successful cross-organizational initiatives.

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

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Designs, develops, and maintains engineering infrastructure, tools, and services that power the CI/CD for Microsoft Teams across different clients/platforms and builds tools/bots and leverages AI to improve developer productivity, contribute ideas to continuously improve our systems, and drive actionable code and product quality feedback
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in