1 day ago
Redmond, WA, USA +2 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$102k - $219k/yr
Responsibilities
- Ramp up on unfamiliar services and codebases, including their architecture, dependencies, and operational characteristics.
- Translate open-ended engineering problems into scoped deliverables with clear success criteria.
- Design, implement, test, deploy, and measure software improvements across modernization, resilience, cost optimization, compliance, and developer productivity initiatives.
- Own features and technical deliverables from design through deployment, validation, and impact measurement.
- Diagnose and address performance, latency, scalability, reliability, and cost issues in distributed services.
- Use telemetry, profiling, debugging, and experimentation to make evidence-based engineering decisions.
- Write clean, secure, testable, and observable code.
- Coordinate dependencies and safely deliver changes across repositories, services, and organizations.
- Communicate technical progress, risks, decisions, and tradeoffs to engineering partners and stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Alternatively, a master’s degree with 3+ years of technical engineering experience, or a bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience designing, implementing, testing, or debugging production software.
- Experience collaborating to deliver software features or engineering improvements.
- Experience designing and developing reliable distributed systems, cloud services, or platform components.
- Experience owning a software feature or service component from design through production deployment.
- Experience diagnosing production issues using logs, metrics, distributed tracing, debuggers, profilers, or similar tools.
- Experience improving service latency, scalability, resource utilization, reliability, or operational cost.
- Experience writing automated unit, integration, performance, or reliability tests.
- Experience working in large codebases and ramping up on unfamiliar systems.
- Experience with Azure or another public cloud platform.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Benefits
- The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $102,100–$202,200 per year, with a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range of USD $133,800–$219,200 per year.
- Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
- The position is open for at least five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
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.