Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Boston, MA +2 · Software Engineering

Senior Software Engineer role focused on designing and delivering cloud-based solutions for customers, collaborating with cross-functional teams and contributing to open-source projects. The role involves developing solution patterns and software assets to address customer challenges.

What you'd actually do

  1. Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
  2. Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
  3. Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
  4. Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
  5. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
  • 4+ years technical engineering experience
  • coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience
  • travel up to 25%

What the JD emphasized

  • deep experience and expertise in designing and delivering solutions using modern software engineering practices and cloud technologies