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Microsoft Corporation Software Engineer II in Redmond, Washington
Are you interested in shaping the future of personal computing, with a small and growing team working with a startup mindset? Come join the Windows Incubation team envisioning and building new Web, Cloud streaming, and AI-powered experiences on a range of devices.
As Software Engineer II on the Windows Incubation team, you will build with the latest advances in the Windows platform, OS/silicon integration, cloud/client computing, large language models, and web development. You will partner with Product Management and Design to develop ideas to solve customer problems, and prototypes to learn from. Together with your team, you will design and implement innovative solutions to some of the most complex problems. You are open and adaptable, ready to learn and start working with diverse codebases and technologies. You will contribute to engineering systems, testing, and tools to improve the team's efficiency.
If you thrive on solving problems by building, learning and iterating in a collaborative environment, this is the role for you! We offer in-office, remote and partial remote work arrangements to support your preferred work style.
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
Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve usability, performance and maintainability.
Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products.
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience.
2 years of experience developing Operating System components OR Windows applications
Preferred Qualifications:
Web development using TypeScript, HTML, CSS and Web Components
Incorporation of Machine Learning algorithms into shipping products
Operating system or application virtualization technology
Hardware acceleration to optimize software performance
Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 - $182,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $120,900 - $198,600 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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