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As a Senior Software Engineer on the PowerPoint Live team, you will help improve how people present and collaborate within Microsoft Teams meetings. You will work on the client, focusing on fundamentals such as performance, loading, and rendering, while also bringing new Copilot features to PowerPoint Live. Success in this role requires technical depth across client architecture, middleware, and familiarity with the backend systems that support these services end to end. You will use agentic coding and the latest tools to help make PowerPoint Live better. You will be part of a collaborative engineering group based in Vancouver, BC, working closely with teams in Mountain View, CA, Redmond, WA, and other global locations. In this role, you will help solve complex challenges involving performance, scalability, and reliability as you evolve the PowerPoint experience across cloud-connected environments.
Job Responsibility:
From fast evolving new features to long-term architecture investments, you will be responsible for shipping robust, performant, reliable and delightful experiences to millions of customers
Team members collaborate on every detail of design, implementation, validation and monitoring of feature usage and health across PowerPoint desktop clients and backend services
You will get a chance to enrich the core of PowerPoint, which is powered by our native C++ and TypeScript codebases, making product changes that allow us to stay in lockstep with the changing needs of our customers
You will get a chance to make PowerPoint Live better and more resilient
You will be required to understand telemetry data to run and improve the service
All team members participate in a live-site rotation
You will have the opportunity to advance engineering excellence by driving design discussions, contributing to code reviews, and participating in knowledge sharing sessions
Embody our Culture and Values
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ 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 experience in application platform and architecture
2+ years experience with user-facing client applications
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Proficiency in object-oriented design, debugging, analytics and problem solving
Experience working with rich telemetry, making data driven decisions, rapid experimentation
Experience building software with scale, performance, efficiency, and reliability
Experience working closely together on every detail of design and implementation of the product
Ability to work cross group and across disciplines
Academic or Industry experience with building, systems with LLM models (any category)
Grounded in growth mindset, and advocate for inclusion
Customer obsessed and passionate about product impact