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Are you excited about building innovative software services that power cutting-edge productivity tools? Do you have experience developing scalable, reliable, and intelligent distributed systems? Are you eager to make an impact by contributing to products used by millions of people worldwide? As an Senior Software Engineer in the OPG team, you will contribute to the design and implementation of intelligent backend solutions by applying both software engineering and AI skills. In this role, you will work on high-scale, distributed systems that enable advanced productivity features for users across the globe. You will collaborate with a diverse group of engineers, PMs, and designers, and work closely with other teams across Microsoft to deliver robust, efficient, and secure services in the Microsoft 365 and Azure ecosystem to meet OPG's (Office Product Group) core service needs. If you are passionate about service architecture, scalability, and delivering high-quality solutions, we’d love to have you join our team. In this role, you are expected to demonstrate strong software engineering fundamentals -including coding, testing, and deployment - while integrating and optimizing AI models and frameworks. You will contribute to delivering solutions that are reliable, impactful, and innovative, with mentorship and guidance from more senior team members.
Job Responsibility:
Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features
Own quality of your code and fully leverage AI development tools to accelerate development
Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight
Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable
Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems
Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale
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
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: 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
Proven ability to design and develop loosely coupled, componentized, and unit-tested software
Ability to deal with ambiguity and understand key business needs in line with competing priorities and apply the right technology and implementation to the solution
Demonstrated strength to quickly get up-to-speed and be productive on new technical domains and are comfortable in dealing with ambiguity
Analytical, problem-solving, and debugging skills with a solid understanding of object-oriented design, coding patterns, testing practices, and approaches for large-scale technical challenges
Proven ability to use AI tooling to reduce cycle time and boost throughput while maintaining Microsoft’s strict standards for privacy, security, and compliance
Experience in building libraries, SDKs and other components using, but not limited to: C/C++, C#, Java, TypeScript
Extensive experience with one or more modern web technologies such as .NET, Node, building RESTful APIs, and hands-on knowledge of web concepts such as HTTP, SOAP, and MVC
Solid industry experience collaborating with others on designing, developing, testing, and shipping solutions to large scale technical problems
Solid background in designing and deploying systems and services powered by AI infrastructure, with emphasis on scalability, reliability, and performance in production environments