Software Engineer II

Any Developer.  Any App.  Any Platform.

Microsoft continues to make big investments to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.  Come join the team responsible for delivering the Visual Studio family of products and Developer Cloud. It's an incredibly rich space with many technical problems begging for well-designed, well-executed and innovative solutions. 

We create modern tools & services that help developers build apps & services for a variety of platforms, including Windows, iOS, Android, Azure and many more. The team builds developer tools (Visual Studio & Visual Studio Code), designs & develops developer experiences for C#, TypeScript (JavaScript), C++ and more.   We also deliver mission critical developer services like Azure DevOps and Azure Lab Services that enable developers to build applications and services using any language and any platform. Our work includes enabling deeper integration with GitHub Copilot and other providers to enable scenarios not possible in any other developer tool.  We are designing new experiences for developers as they adopt new productivity experiences with GitHub Copilot.

In a recent survey done by stackoverflow.com continue to be the most popular development environments & tools.  Azure DevOps is a critical service with over 3 million monthly engaged users worldwide, including every engineer at Microsoft. Our tools & services help a wide spectrum of developers all the way from professional developers to middle school students. 

We create solutions together in a rich, collaborative environment and while we work hard together, work/life balance and having fun are also core values. Make your mark, make an impact, and make our customers the most successful and productive developers in the world!

We are looking for a Software Engineer II to help us deliver additional tools & services to significantly improve developers’ productivity. You will work with program managers to understand customer needs, develop experiences that make them more productive as they work with their team members to develop, deploy, and run their apps & services.

You will work in a collaborative environment to build features in tools & services, ship them to customers frequently and learn from customer feedback. You will build simple and powerful experiences in developer tools, highly scalable cloud services that the tools will connect to, and systems that monitor the health of the services. The software you build will help millions of developers all over the world.

You will become part of a team where learning from peers and growing as a team is a core principle.

We continue to embrace and support remote/hybrid work flexibility. 

Read about and try the most recent releases of the Visual Studio family of products and Developer Cloud here:

Visual Studio: IDE and Code Editor for Software Developers and Teams (microsoft.com)

Azure DevOps Services | Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Dev Box – Dev Workstation in the Cloud | Microsoft Azure

Lab Services | Microsoft Azure

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

• Love working with a smart, technical customer base
• Enjoy figuring out difficult technical problems in a foundational space that will affect Visual Studio and Developer Cloud’s ability to deliver on features that target new platforms or provide new experiences
• Like the idea that the code you build & design has one of the most direct correlations to developer satisfaction, and by delivering high quality, performant, AI-powered and elegant experiences you can greatly enhance a developer's day-to-day enjoyment
• Want to be part of a motivated and collaborative engineering team
• Design, implement, debug, and deliver rich developer experiences and services using C#, TypeScript (JavaScript), and/or C++

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