Backend Engineer Job at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond)

Job Description

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential and excitement for the journey ahead. With continued growth and impact in the browser space, Microsoft’s Edge browser is growing to meet these challenges! The Edge browser team is hiring an experienced engineer to join the agile and diverse team that works on V8, the JavaScript and WebAssembly JIT compiler and execution engine that powers Edge. As a Backend Engineer, you will help plan, design, develop and test software components for enhancements to V8 or new allied product components which may be used in Chromium based products. This opportunity will allow you to develop software, tools and code to be used in support of design, infrastructure and technology platforms as well as commercial or end-user applications. You will primarily use C++ along with other technologies to write code, perform testing and debug any issues with robust documentation, procedures for deployment and processes for maintenance. This is a flexible work opportunity where you can choose to work remotely for at most one day a week.

Job Responsibility

Contribute, in partnership with appropriate stakeholders, to determine user requirements for a feature and consider a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes.
Learn and contribute to processes for the architecture of a product/solution feature and learn to create proposals by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans under the technical leadership of others as well as help produce code to test hypotheses for technical solutions and assist with technical validation efforts.
With guidance, learn to create and implement code that is extensible and maintainable and apply diagnosability, reliability and maintainability, and understand when the code is ready to be shared and delivered for a product, service, or feature using the code as applicable.
Learn to review work items to gain knowledge of product features in partnership with appropriate stakeholders and assist and learn about breaking down work items into tasks and providing estimation as well as escalating any issues that would cause a delay.
Learn about and contribute to operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis and identify solutions and mitigations to simple issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site services and escalate as necessary.
Help develop and contribute to automation within production and deployment of a product feature and run code in simulated or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products with oversight.
Embody our culture and values.

Requirements

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 or C#
OR equivalent experience.
Experience working with data structures like hash tables and binary trees, algorithms, and performance analysis.
Experience with compiler technology, assembly-level programming and/or debugging.

Nice to have

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C++, C or C#
OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C++, C or C#
OR equivalent experience.

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