Base Salary
$143k - $304k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and delivery of large-scale Windows and MSN experiences focused on reliability, performance, and user engagement.
- Drive technical strategy and architecture for Windows Widgets, dashboard experiences, content surfaces, and platform components.
- Design, build, and ship Windows applications, Windows shell experiences, or client-side experiences integrated with Windows platform capabilities.
- Partner with Windows engineering teams to deliver integrated experiences across the Windows ecosystem.
- Lead architecture reviews, design discussions, code reviews, mentorship, and initiatives that improve engineering excellence.
- Translate business objectives and customer needs into scalable technical solutions.
- Use telemetry, experimentation, and data to guide product investments and measure customer impact.
- Drive execution across multiple teams for complex initiatives.
- Champion quality, operational excellence, accessibility, privacy, and security best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred qualifications include a master's degree with 8+ years of experience, or a bachelor's degree with 12+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- At least 10 years of software engineering experience building and shipping large-scale products or services is preferred.
- Hands-on software development experience with C++, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, or related technologies.
- Proven experience architecting and delivering complex systems at scale.
- Experience designing highly performant, reliable, and maintainable software systems.
- Demonstrated technical leadership across teams, including technical strategy, architecture reviews, and cross-organizational initiatives.
- Experience using telemetry, experimentation, and data to guide engineering and product decisions.
- Experience operating production systems and driving reliability, quality, and operational excellence.
- Experience building consumer-facing experiences on Windows or other large-scale client platforms.
- Expertise in modern web technologies, performance engineering, and client-side architecture.
- Experience improving startup performance, responsiveness, reliability, or customer engagement metrics at scale.
- Familiarity with experimentation platforms, recommendation systems, personalization, or AI-powered experiences.
- Strong communication, collaboration, influence, and mentoring skills.
Benefits
- Employees within a 50-mile commute of a designated U.S. Microsoft office or 25-mile commute of a designated non-U.S. location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week beginning January 26, 2026, subject to local law and jurisdiction.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the position open for a minimum of five days.
Tech Stack
Categories
About Microsoft
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.