5 months ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with customers, stakeholders, product teams, partners, and open-source communities to determine requirements and build cloud-based solutions.
- Identify dependencies and develop design documents for products, applications, services, and platforms.
- Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to improve performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and ROI.
- Contribute to project plans, release plans, work items, reusable solution patterns, and open-source software assets.
- Act as a Designated Responsible Individual, participate in on-call operations, monitor systems for degradation or downtime, and coordinate restoration actions.
- Improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, performance, monitoring, and operations at scale.
- Guide other engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams including software engineers, data scientists, technical program managers, and designers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical discipline and at least four years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Fluency in Japanese and English.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and at least eight years of technical engineering experience, or a relevant master’s degree and at least ten years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Willingness to travel up to 25%.
Benefits
- Informal and flexible work environment with flexibility to work in the way that best enables job completion.
- Competitive benefits package supporting health, wellness, financial needs, and personal needs; offerings may vary by employment type and country.
- Equal opportunity employer with accommodations available during the application process.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
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.