Software Engineering IC5

Role overview

Requirements, design, and architecture

• Partner with stakeholders to determine user requirements, incorporate feedback, and measure customer value and usage.
• Lead solution architecture, design proposals, investigation, and testing of hypotheses; own design decisions and guide other team members.
• Plan solution testing, improve test coverage and automation, and ensure architecture meets security and compliance expectations.
• Identify product and service dependencies, coordinate across teams, and address downstream effects on security, performance, and reliability.

Coding and implementation

• Lead development of extensible, maintainable code and improve performance through optimization, debugging, refactoring, and reuse.
• Review code for quality, reliability, accuracy, diagnosability, maintainability, and adherence to coding practices.
• Guide project plans, releases, estimates, milestones, and roadmaps; escalate issues that could cause major delays.
• Run experiments and prototypes, evaluate results, identify customer-value metrics, and determine next steps or release decisions.
• Implement and deploy solutions safely within existing frameworks, accounting for impacts on users and connected services.

Reliability and engineering excellence

• Support live services on a rotational on-call basis, mitigate complex issues, write postmortems, and restore service within SLA timeframes.
• Serve as a designated responsible individual, monitor service health, coordinate coverage, create playbooks, reduce incidents, and escalate issues.
• Integrate telemetry and instrumentation, analyze system metrics, and create outputs such as notifications and dashboards.
• Improve developer tools and automation; develop standardized, repeatable solutions and promote security, privacy, safety, accessibility, and compliance.
• Stay current with technical developments, share engineering practices, mentor others, and coordinate with partners across Microsoft.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical discipline and 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 10+ years of technical engineering experience coding in the listed or similar languages, or equivalent experience.
• Master’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience coding in the listed or similar languages, or equivalent experience.

Application information

• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled; the posting states a minimum opening period of 5 days.

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