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We are the Shell team in the Windows Servicing and Delivery (WSD) organization. The delivery of new innovations and updates to our customers is at the core of WSD’s mission to keep Microsoft customers protected and productive. We orchestrate the release of exciting new features and guard the quality of the user experience in existing and future versions of Windows to our consumer, enterprise and Microsoft Cloud customers. A Software Engineer on the WSD Shell team will work closely with product teams and other engineers to bring new features to Windows products. This opportunity will allow development of deep business acumen, technical skills and provide opportunity to accelerate career growth.
Job Responsibility:
Work with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements for a set of features and incorporate appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value.
Contribute to the identification of dependencies and development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
Help to identify other teams and technologies to leverage, including how they will interact, and when one's system may provide support to others.
Contribute to determining back-end dependencies associated with product, application, service, or platform functionality for product features.
Create and implement code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
Write and learn to create code that is extensible and maintainable while considering diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects as well as understand when the code is ready to be shared and delivered.
Apply coding patterns and best practices to write code.
Create a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests (e.g., unit tests).
Add new tests, removes antiquated tests, and aggregates tests to improve tests in the feature area.
Help drive efforts for augmenting test cases and ensures that the solution area has good test coverage.
Help integrate automation features when planning for testing.
Identify areas for efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms.
Contribute to sustaining feedback loops from telemetry resulting in subsequent designs and help create outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards.
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience 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.
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
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# or JavaScript (C++ preferred). OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to C, C++, C# JavaScript (C++ preferred). OR equivalent experience.
1+ years of experience developing and optimizing algorithms using C++ and practical application of data structures in software development.
Experience in Git or other version control systems.
1+ years of experience with Win32 APIs and ability to design and implement robust system architecture and frameworks.
1+ years of experience in performing regression testing.