Microsoft Looking For Senior Software Engineer at Cambridge, MA Full Time

Do you wake up hoping to find time to learn a bit more about how to containerize compute workloads? Work with high scale data? Or build end to end engineering deployment systems? Do you want to join a team where learning about new technology is part of our work every day?

The Commercial Software Engineering (CSE) 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 to solve their biggest challenges and accelerate their organization’s cloud transformation. We work in collaboration with Microsoft product teams, partners, and open source communities to empower our customers to achieve more with cloud technologies. We pride ourselves on making contributions to open source and making our Microsoft platforms easier to use.

We are hiring a Senior Software Engineer with deep experience and expertise designing and delivering solutions using modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies. You’re your team, 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.

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! Watch this video to learn more about who we are and what we do: https://aka.ms/csevideo.

Responsibilities

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 great teammate to actively help other engineers become stronger 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.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
5+ years of relevant software industry experience

2+ years of Cloud experience building and shipping large-scale distributed services and APIs, preferably on Azure or AWS platforms

Preferred Qualifications:
A good working knowledge of agile software development methodologies and tools that enable these, such as Azure DevOps, GitHub, or others

Experience working with customers and across company boundaries

Experience in Financial Service Industry

Proficiency in one or more of these languages: C#, Python, Java, Go, JavaScript

A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or the equivalent

Enjoy potential future travel and are comfortable with regional travel up to 25%

“Ability to meet Microsoft and customer security screening requirements are required for this role.”

At Microsoft, we are seeking people who have a passion for the positive impact technology can have on communities and for making a difference in the world. Within CSE, 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 best enables you to get your job done.

We invest in your health, wellness, and financial future by offering a competitive package including a wide range of benefits built around your personal needs and those close to you.

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.

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