Software Engineer

Do you enjoy solving problems, writing software, and working with customers? Would you like to have more time to learn and work on Cloud Native apps, Data Analytics, and DevOps? Our team is looking for engineers who love to learn and are eager to share what they know with colleagues and customers.

The Industry Solutions Engineering (ISE) team is a global engineering organization that works directly with customers looking to leverage the latest technologies to address their toughest challenges. We work closely with our customers' engineers to jointly develop code for cloud-based solutions that can accelerate their organization. We work in collaboration with Microsoft product teams, partners, and open-source communities to empower our customers to do more with the cloud. We pride ourselves in making contributions to open source and making our platforms easier to use.

We develop solutions side-by-side with our customers through collaborative innovation to solve their challenges. This work involves the development of broadly applicable, high-impact solution patterns and open-source software assets that contribute to the Microsoft platform. In this role, you will be working with engineers from your team and our customers' teams to apply your skills, perspectives, and creativity to grow as engineers and help solve our customers' toughest challenges.

We are hiring a Software Engineer with experience and expertise designing and delivering solutions using modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies. You will be working side-by-side with customer engineers to build innovative solutions. As part of our team, you will thrive in working with a variety of technologies, not just Microsoft technology. You will solve exciting business problems, contribute to open source, and collaborate with Microsoft product teams.

At Microsoft, we are seeking people who are curious and have a passion for the positive impact technology can have on communities and for making a difference in the world. Within ISE, you will find a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, personal and cultural experiences which are vital to our success with our customers. It's an informal and flexible work environment and you'll be welcome to work in the way that enables you to get your job done.

Our team prides itself on embracing a growth mindset, inspiring excellence, and encouraging everyone to share their unique viewpoints and be their authentic selves. Join us and help create life-changing innovations that impact billions around the world!

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Required / Minimum Qualifications

• 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#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master'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#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• Familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI concepts.

• Hands-on experience building production quality software (etc cloud services) in an agile environment.

• Effective communication and collaboration skills.

• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new languages and technologies.

• Enjoy travel and comfortable with regional travel up to 25%.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $127,200 - $208,800 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 10, 2024.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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Understand User Requirements

• Collaborates with stakeholders on user requirements and feedback for features. Applies various feedback channels to improve designs or solutions. Measures customer value, usage patterns, and other metrics of value.

Design

• Contributes to product/solution architecture and testing design with technical leadership

• Working hands-on with your team and our customers through design and implementation, demonstrating good engineering practices and coding along the way

Coding

• Writes and debugs code for a product feature following coding standards and best practices.

Implement

• Executes project plans and tests features, learns about deployment and considers customer impact.

• Sharing your work and learnings with your team, Microsoft product teams, and the OSS community

Engineering Excellence

• Continuously improving our ability to deliver quality solutions by helping to evolve our engineering process

• Continuously building your technical knowledge

Other

• Working hands-on with your team and our customers to build cloud-based solutions, from design through implementation, setting examples for good engineering practices and coding along the way.

• Being a teammate to actively help other engineers become better problem solvers, engineers, communicators, and collaborators.

• Modeling our core values and being a mentor and coach to other engineers on our team.

• Continuously improving our ability to deliver quality solutions by evolving our engineering process and technical capabilities.

Other

• Embody our culture and values