Senior Software Engineer - M365 Copilot

Microsoft

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About The Position

With Microsoft 365 Copilot, customers are expecting best in class AI tools to improve their productivity. The team is looking to hire an engineer to work on the product's engineering systems and web framework.
As a Software Engineer in the M365 Copilot team you will be responsible for ensuring that developers have best in class tooling available to them. This opportunity will require you to contribute to open source projects like Vite, Tanstack Router, and React Router to make sure these tools can meet the needs of the engineering team.
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.

Requirements

• 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, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience working on complex web applications.
• 2+ years of experience optimizing engineering tools to support a team of 10 or more engineers. The candidate should be familiar with web tools like Typescript, Webpack/Vite, and jest/vitest.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

• 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. Brings 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.
• Identifies dependencies and incorporates them into the development of design documents for a product, application, service or platform. Actively identifies other teams and technologies to leverage, how they interact, and where their own system or team can support others. Understands upstream and downstream interactions between systems and ensures security, compliance, performance, and reliability can be achieved across the entire stack. Collaborates with other teams to reach common goals where dependencies and validation concerns overlap. Works across teams to resolve conflicts around dependency ownership and required work.
• Applies best practices to build code based on well-established methods and secure design principles while also applying best practices for new code development and formal validation of security invariants. Drives product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and security promises.
• Leverages their subject-matter expertise to partner with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., technical program managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. Organizes work into smaller sets of tasks as part of an overall roadmap. Guides other members for project estimation and escalates issues that might cause a delay. Ensures required security protections and detection processes are accounted for in planning. Ensures project plans adhere to security, privacy, and compliance requirements. Ensures all code for a product/solution is properly flighted for quicker mitigation of production incidents. Calculates capacity for planning, accounting for appropriate failover and backup/restore mechanisms for disaster recovery for a project/sub-system of a product. Makes considerations for efficient operation of a project/sub-system of a product after it is live. Establishes a rollback plan for a project/sub-system of a product.
• Uses and enhances, or builds, new software developer tools to support easier, faster, and more effective software engineering for products. Identifies whether open source or internal code is available to address coding needs for a project/sub-system of a product, and reuses it in a responsible manner where applicable. Develops skills in tools outside current areas of expertise. Identifies and/or creates tools that are useful for building the product. Shares best practices and teaches others about new tools and strategies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level