Senior Development Engineer

Job Description

The Core Platform Driver team at Microsoft is seeking talented engineers to work on state-of-the-art gaming platforms and cutting-edge game development technology.

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
• 4 + years of experience in owning/delivering key components of a software product

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine requirements
• Leads by example within the team by producing extensible, maintainable, and testable code
• Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)
• Leads discussions for the architecture and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans
• Provides feedback, proposed solutions, to peers
• Owns architecting of solutions, with minimal technical oversight
• Assures system architecture meets security and compliance requirements and expectations
• Independently creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions
• Drives efforts to add new tests, remove antiquated tests, and aggregate tests to improve the test suite
• Applies debugging and performance tooling and examines logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions through writing and developing code proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur for products
• Conducts retrospective debugging of solutions to identify root causes of problems
• Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers
• Acts as a key contact for leadership to ensure alignment with partners' expectations

Benefits

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect