Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Independently uses appropriate artificial intelligence (AI) tools and practices across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) in a disciplined manner.
• Takes responsibility for the content of their AI-generated requirements, design documents, code, and other assets, assisting other members of the team to do the same.
• Uses SDLC and engineering health measures (e.g., Accelerate, SPACE framework, Engineering System Success Playbook [ESSP]) to improve processes and practices, especially those involving AI.
• Experiments with AI tools and practices to improve their own capabilities.
• Leads by example within the team to produce extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant code that adheres to design specifications.
• Continuously improves code performance, testability, maintainability, effectiveness, and cost, while learning about and accounting for relevant trade-offs.
• Applies metrics to drive code quality and stability.
• Applies appropriate coding patterns and best practices (e.g., leveraging state-of-the-art generative artificial intelligence [GenAI], approaches to source code organization, naming conventions).
• Identifies and escalates blockers or unknowns during the development process, communicates how they will impact timelines, and identifies strategies and/or opportunities to address them.
• Reviews product code and test code to ensure it meets team standards, contains the correct test coverage, and is appropriate for the product or solution area.
• Bridges the gap between developers and non-technical stakeholders by bringing insight to code reviews to help improve code quality, coaching and providing feedback to develop other engineers' skills.
• Conducts code reviews in a timely fashion that helps accelerate the pace of development on the team.
• Considers diagnosability, reliability, testability, and maintainability when reviewing code, and understands when code is ready to be shared or delivered.
• Applies and reviews for coding patterns, security risks, compliance issues, and best practices in code reviews, providing feedback on code to drive adherence to best practices.
• Uses automated source code analysis tools that are incorporated into the build/development process.
• Uses debugging tools, tests, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively verify assumptions while developing code before issues occur for products in production.
• Conducts incident retrospectives to identify root causes of problems, implements repair actions, and identifies mechanisms to prevent incident recurrence.
• Independently applies least-access principles, uses logging, telemetry, and other appropriate mechanisms to investigate issues while retaining privacy and security, and drives those practices across the team.
• Leads discussions for and owns the architecture of a products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and develop complex design specifications.
• Tests and explores various design options for a complex product/solution scenario, outlining strengths and weaknesses of each option.
• Independently collaborates with architects to build and modify complex products/solutions, providing feedback as needed.
• Owns or collaborates with other engineers on the architecture of solutions, with minimal technical oversight.
• Develops design documents that support user stories and other product requirements.
• Maintains awareness of the current technology landscape, and determines how to integrate these technologies within existing systems.
• Shares learnings and identified solutions from investigations with the team and owns for some design decisions.
• Ensures system architecture and individual designs meet performance, scalability, resiliency, cost of goods sold (COGS), disaster recovery, and other requirements and expectations.
• Upholds Microsoft standards of security, privacy, and other compliance requirements and expectations.
• Understands and coaches less experienced engineers on the importance of building solutions that expand upon the work of others.
• Drives the refinement of products through data analytics, and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration.
• Reviews designs/architectures within and across teams to provide recommendations for improvements.
• Drives efforts to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility.
• Creates and assures the presence of visible evidence (e.g., audit trail) to demonstrate compliance for products.
• Develops and maintains a deep understanding of the implications of onboarding new technologies following expectations of compliance at Microsoft.
• Demonstrates and maintains an up-to-date understanding of both global and local regulations for technologies and system applications to ensure regulations are followed and met.
• Acts as a designated responsible individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on-call to monitor a system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Alerts stakeholders as to status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple problems and complex problems when appropriate.
• Responds within service level agreement (SLA) timeframe.
• Drives efforts to reduce incident volume, looking globally at incidences and providing broad resolutions.
• Escalates issues to appropriate owners.

Qualifications

• 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, or C++. OR equivalent experience.
• 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, or C++. 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, or C++. OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in modern security technologies such as OpenSSL, NCrypt, OpenID, Entra, WebAuth and Yubikey.
• Experience in cyber security, responsible disclosure practices, and how to evaluate and mitigate risks.
• Experience in Windows Internals and distributed systems.