Microsoft

Software Engineer

Microsoft$85K — $169K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 2+ years of relevant engineering experience in programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 3+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent experience with 5+ years in the field for Bachelor's holders.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to identifying requirements and developing automation for a complex product feature aiming for zero-touch deployment.
  • Test code in simulated environments to ensure functionality and runtime reliability without oversight.
  • Review and ensure product feature code meets team standards and appropriate test coverage.
  • Provide insights during code reviews to enhance code quality while coaching fellow engineers minimally.
  • Accelerate team development through timely participation in code reviews.
  • Focus on diagnosability, reliability, testability, and maintainability in code evaluation.
  • Apply established best practices for secure and efficient code development.

Benefits

  • Access to internal experimentation infrastructures for impact analysis of changes.
  • Opportunity for collaboration with data scientists and product managers to incorporate metrics for success.
  • Involvement in logging and instrumentation efforts to enhance system behavior monitoring.
  • Support in improving monitoring designs while considering privacy implications.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities
  • Contribute to the identification of requirements for, and development of automation within production and deployment of a complex product feature, targeting zero-touch deployment where possible.
  • Run code in simulated or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products with little to no oversight.
  • Review product feature code and test code to ensure it meets team standards, contains the correct test coverage, and is appropriate for the product feature.
  • Contribute to bringing insight to code reviews, helping improve code quality, and coaching and providing feedback to develop other engineers' skills with minimal guidance.
  • Contribute to code reviews in a timely fashion to help accelerate the pace of development on the team.
  • Consider diagnosability, reliability, testability, and maintainability when reviewing code.
  • Apply 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.
  • Follow best practices for product development and scaling to customer requirements, and meeting scaling needs, performance expectations, and security promises.
  • Leverage internal experimentation infrastructures to conduct experiments that determine the impact of changes, using feature flags and flighting.
  • Collaborate with internal partners such as data scientists and product managers to incorporate success and guardrail metrics for experimentation with minimal guidance.
  • Identify areas to contribute to integration of logging and instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior, such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms.
  • Enable monitoring and investigation of security-related concerns and scenarios for both live and A/B experiments.
  • Contribute to improving monitoring designs by classifying and analyzing data and creating outputs that enhance system monitoring and issue identification and mitigation, while considering the privacy implications of telemetry changes.


Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications
  • Bachelor'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#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ 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 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.


Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $85,800 - CAD $169,300 per year.

Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Software Engineering IC3 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 85,800 $ CAD à 169,300 $ CAD par année.

Pour plus d'information au sujet de la rémunération, veuillez cliquer ici:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu'à ce que le poste soit pourvu.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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