23 hours ago
Vancouver, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with engineers and partner teams to define technical requirements, identify dependencies, and contribute to architecture and design decisions.
- Design, implement, test, optimize, debug, and maintain software for real-time video and media platform components.
- Investigate video, camera, device, and media pipeline issues across hardware, operating system, and application layers.
- Use telemetry, diagnostics, performance analysis, and experimentation to evaluate production behavior and engineering improvements.
- Drive technical designs and projects across component and team boundaries.
- Participate in the DRI on-call rotation, respond to live-site incidents, and improve service reliability and supportability.
- Contribute through design and code reviews, documentation, engineering best practices, mentoring, and architectural improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Experience developing software that interacts with hardware, devices, operating system components, or platform APIs.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
- Preferred: master’s degree and 6+ years of experience, or bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred: production software development experience using C or C++.
- Preferred: experience with real-time media, video, multimedia, image or signal processing, video compression, or related technologies such as H.264, HEVC, or AV1.
- Preferred: experience optimizing software for performance, reliability, memory, or resource efficiency and contributing to technical designs across teams.
Benefits
- The role is based across Canada with a typical base pay range of CAD $114,400–$203,900 per year.
- The position will be open for at least five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and provides religious and disability accommodation support during the application process.
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About Microsoft
Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.