Software Engineer II

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

1d • $100,600 - $199,000

About The Position

Come join the PowerPoint team as we deliver modern, intelligent, and collaborative experiences that will delight millions of PowerPoint customers. We are looking to hire a Software Engineer II. We are located in the heart of Silicon Valley in Mountain View, CA as well as in Redmond, WA. The PowerPoint team has the responsibility for the design, implementation, and validation of the PowerPoint ecosystem of products and services, which includes our desktop clients and large-scale cloud services. Our mature development and engineering systems allow us to innovate at an extremely fast pace to transform the landscape of presentation software. Our products and portfolio are rapidly expanding, and we are excited to meet the challenges of scale, performance, efficiency, and reliability as we build the world's best storytelling software. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years software development experience in C++ or C# OR equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in object-oriented design, debugging, analytics and problem solving.

Nice To Haves

• 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# OR 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, C++, C# OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years experience in application platform and architecture.
• Experience working with rich telemetry, making data driven decisions, rapid experimentation.
• Experience building software with scale, performance, efficiency, and reliability.
• Experience working closely together on every detail of design and implementation of the product. From fast evolving new features to long-range infrastructure and architecture investments.
• Ability to work cross group and across disciplines.
• Academic or Industry experience with building, finetuning or building systems with models (any category).
• Leadership skills to influence others, with the ability to understand team dynamics, retain, attract, and develop team members.
• Grounded in growth mindset, and advocate for inclusion.
• Customer obsessed and passionate about product impact.

Responsibilities

• From fast evolving new features to long-term architecture investments, you will be responsible for shipping robust, performant, reliable and delightful experiences to millions of customers.
• Team members collaborate on every detail of design, implementation, validation and monitoring of feature usage and health across PowerPoint desktop clients and backend services.
• You will get a chance to enrich the core of PowerPoint, which is powered by our native C++ codebase, making product changes that allow us to stay in lockstep with the changing needs of our customers.
• You will have the opportunity to advance engineering excellence by driving design discussions, contributing to code reviews, and participating in knowledge sharing sessions.
• Embody our Culture and Values.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees