Senior Software Engineer - Virtualization

Job Description

Join the Linux on Windows team at Microsoft as a Senior Software Engineer to work on cross-platform engineering challenges and shape the future of virtualization technologies.

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
• 3+ years of experience with systems engineering such as operating systems, virtualization, kernel development, and driver development

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with stakeholders to determine user requirements for scenarios
• Drives the development of design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, and refactors code to improve performance and maintainability
• Guides other engineers by developing and following playbooks for system/product/service monitoring and restoration
• Seeks new knowledge and adapts to improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance

Benefits

• Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.