Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft

The Commerce + Ecosystem (C+E)  team is working to enable easier experience for customers and partners to grow, as well as to buy and do business with us by delivering a dependable, safe and secure commerce infrastructure.   

The C+E Sales, Partner & Supply Chain (SPS) team works on three major areas:   
We build the tool chain for the Microsoft sales force to enable pre-sales, sales in New Commerce, Co-selling with Partners, and post sales engagement.   
We build systems that enable the Microsoft partner ecosystem. Including the Microsoft cloud partner program, The New Commerce breadth motion or CSP and the systems to motivate partners to drive the right business and customers outcome.   
We build a platform that powers the device and cloud supply chains for Microsoft.   

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more, and we’re dedicated to this mission across every aspect of our company. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Join us and help shape the future of the world.  

In this position, you will be part of a fun-loving, diverse team that seeks challenges, loves learning and values teamwork. You will collaborate with team members and partners in a dynamic and agile environment, and have opportunities for mentorship, career growth, and work on high-business impact areas.  
This position will be in Portal Platform engineering team responsible for building the platform and infrastructure services that power the Partner Portal (partner.microsoft.com) and also own all the listening and feedback tools like NPS and Support. This is a very visible role with high impact where all the components you build will be used by our entire ecosystem of internal and external stakeholders. As a Senior Software Engineer in this team, you will have the opportunity to explore and innovate using cutting edge technologies and drive business processes and contribute to strategy and broader vision. You will be working on services that are built from the ground up and lead the design and architecture of our services.  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years  technical engineering experience with coding in high level programming languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Scala or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Clear understanding of software development and testing concepts. 

Additional or Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience in designing, developing, and shipping software solutions on a Cloud services platform (e.g. Azure, AWS, Google Cloud etc.)
• Experience building and working with scalable Web Services, REST APIs with NoSQL and/or SQL based backend data store.
• Experience working on full stack services. 

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $112,000 - $218,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $145,800 - $238,600 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. 

Responsibilities

Successful candidates should have a passion for UX and proven experience developing cloud services. You should also exhibit various attributes which will enhance their ability to succeed in this position. 

• Customer Focus - A focus on delivering customer value and being able to directly tie engineering decisions and actions to that value is a huge plus for successful engineers at any level.  
• Collaboration - As most development is about working with others, both within an immediate team, as well as across business units and portions of the company, an ability to collaborate effectively is a core competency to have.  
• Drive for Results - Being able to drive for results, not merely finding the boundary of your responsibility, but following a problem through to its conclusion, to solve it once and for all, is a skill and ability which a successful engineer should exhibit.  
• Technical Excellence - Core to being a software engineer is technical excellence. This is not merely knowing the latest and greatest language developments, but demonstrating a passion for technology, a curiosity to ‘go deep’, and an ability to quickly learn and build upon past experiences, to be able to extrapolate from those experiences, and deliver innovations. Technical excellence is rooted in having demonstrable an aptitude for problem solving. 
• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features, and effectively communicate status, issues, and risks.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight. Identify patterns in challenges faced, to come up with simple and maintainable design & solutions.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable, including testing, delivery and support of various components.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call in a DevOps environment to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.