Microsoft · 5 hours ago
Software Engineering IC4
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $235K/yr
4+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company, and they are seeking a Software Engineer to join the Retail & Consumer Goods team. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders to determine user requirements, leading product architecture discussions, and ensuring the development of secure and efficient code while driving integration and testing efforts.
Application Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentData ManagementDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Reviews product code and test code to ensure it meets team standards, contains the correct test coverage, and is appropriate for the product or solution area
Brings insight to code reviews to help improve code quality, coaching and providing feedback to develop other engineers' skills
Conducts code reviews in a timely fashion that helps accelerate the pace of development on the team
Considers diagnosability, reliability, testability, and maintainability when reviewing code, and understands when code is ready to be shared or delivered
Applies and reviews for coding patterns, security risks, compliance issues, and best practices in code reviews, providing feedback on code to drive adherence to best practices
Uses automated source code analysis tools that are incorporated into the build/development process
Uses debugging tools, tests, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively verify assumptions while developing code before issues occur for products in production
Conducts incident retrospectives to identify root causes of problems, implements repair actions, and identifies mechanisms to prevent incident recurrence
Independently applies least-access principles, uses logging, telemetry, and other appropriate mechanisms to investigate issues while retaining privacy and security, and drives those practices across the team
Leads by example within the team to produce extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant code that adheres to design specifications
Continuously improves code performance, testability, maintainability, effectiveness, and cost, while learning about and accounting for relevant trade-offs
Applies metrics to drive code quality and stability
Applies appropriate coding patterns and best practices (e.g., leveraging state-of-the-art generative artificial intelligence [GenAI], approaches to source code organization, naming conventions)
Identifies and escalates blockers or unknowns during the development process, communicates how they will impact timelines, and identifies strategies and/or opportunities to address them
Independently creates a clear test strategy that ensures solution quality, prevents regression from being introduced into existing code
Ensures test plans incorporate security testing to validate security invariants (including negative cases)
Drives adding new tests to cover gaps, deleting or fixing broken tests, and improving the speed, reliability, and defect localization of the test suite
Independently builds testable code and considers testability during design for a project/sub-section of a product/solution
Understands the different types of tests that can be done on a particular system (e.g., unit tests), maintains up-to-date understanding of testing architectures used both across Microsoft and across the industry, and applies them across the architecture as appropriate
Identifies difficult or untestable sections of codes for a project/sub-section of a product/solution for future design or rearchitecture discussions
Leverages artificial intelligence (AI) tools for test automation
Identifies dependencies and incorporates them into the development of design documents for a product, application, service or platform
Actively identifies other teams and technologies to leverage, how they interact, and where their own system or team can support others
Understands upstream and downstream interactions between systems and ensures security, compliance, performance, and reliability can be achieved across the entire stack
Collaborates with other teams to reach common goals where dependencies and validation concerns overlap
Works across teams to resolve conflicts around dependency ownership and required work
Leads discussions for and owns the architecture of a products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and develop complex design specifications
Tests and explores various design options for a complex product/solution scenario, outlining strengths and weaknesses of each option
Independently collaborates with architects to build and modify complex products/solutions, providing feedback as needed
Owns or collaborates with other engineers on the architecture of solutions, with minimal technical oversight
Develops design documents that support user stories and other product requirements
Maintains awareness of the current technology landscape, and determines how to integrate these technologies within existing systems
Shares learnings and identified solutions from investigations with the team and owns for some design decisions
Ensures system architecture and individual designs meet performance, scalability, resiliency, cost of goods sold (COGS), disaster recovery, and other requirements and expectations
Upholds Microsoft standards of security, privacy, and other compliance requirements and expectations
Understands and coaches less experienced engineers on the importance of building solutions that expand upon the work of others
Drives the refinement of products through data analytics, and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration
Reviews designs/architectures within and across teams to provide recommendations for improvements
Applies 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
Drives product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and security promises
Considers, identifies requirements for, and drives comprehensive application of automation within production and deployment of a product, targeting zero-touch deployment when possible
Runs code in simulated or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products
Drives efforts to ensure the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility
Creates and assures the presence of visible evidence (e.g., audit trail) to demonstrate compliance for products
Develops and maintains a deep understanding of the implications of onboarding new technologies following expectations of compliance at Microsoft
Demonstrates and maintains an up-to-date understanding of both global and local regulations for technologies and system applications to ensure regulations are followed and met
Works with partner teams to ensure a project/sub-system of a product works well with the components of the partner team, ensuring proper end-to-end testing, live-site coverage, scalability, performance, and DRI escalation pathways are established before going live
Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into being informed of current developments
Proactively seeks new knowledge, evaluating new trends, technical solutions, and patterns, assessing how to adapt them to current problems
Conducts learning and literary sessions to raise awareness on relevant engineering design principles (e.g., security, testability, performance, scalability, accessibility, product knowledge)
Uses and enhances, or builds, new software developer tools to support easier, faster, and more effective software engineering for products
Identifies whether open source or internal code is available to address coding needs for a project/sub-system of a product, and reuses it in a responsible manner where applicable
Develops skills in tools outside current areas of expertise
Identifies and/or creates tools that are useful for building the product
Shares best practices and teaches others about new tools and strategies
Understands and applies security best practices and establishes code invariants to model "security as code," ensuring each layer is independently secure, and minimizing risk
Supports and/or adopts security standards for clear security code review practices for a project/sub-system of a product that align with design and engineering principles to raise the security hardening for both protections and detections
Incorporates deployment gates on security controls, and scanners for a project/sub-system of a product to prevent regressions and/or vulnerabilities that would have customer impact
Includes required security monitoring to ensure detection of violations
Independently works with relevant security partners to define security promises and security invariants for the design of a product/solution while factoring in attacker/investigator personas for security monitoring and telemetry needs, ensure threat models and premortems validate upstream and downstream assumptions and security invariants, establish security breach drills and security incident response processes (e.g., impact analysis, containment), and ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) safety features are implemented for the AI production systems tied to a project/sub-system of a product
Leverages their subject-matter expertise to partner with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., technical program managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items
Organizes work into smaller sets of tasks as part of an overall roadmap
Guides other members for project estimation and escalates issues that might cause a delay
Ensures required security protections and detection processes are accounted for in planning
Ensures project plans adhere to security, privacy, and compliance requirements
Ensures all code for a product/solution is properly flighted for quicker mitigation of production incidents
Calculates capacity for planning, accounting for appropriate failover and backup/restore mechanisms for disaster recovery for a project/sub-system of a product
Makes considerations for efficient operation of a project/sub-system of a product after it is live
Establishes a rollback plan for a project/sub-system of a product
Leveraging internal experimentation infrastructures, drives experiments that determine the impact of changes, using feature flags/flighting in their code
Collaborates with internal partners (e.g., Data Science, product managers) to incorporate success and guard rail metrics for experimentation
Leverages existing deployment frameworks in the implementation of solutions, automating deployment tasks when possible to ensure efficiency
Follows safe change deployment best practices (e.g., ensuring that flights are set correctly) for their team to minimize adverse impact to users and other services
Ensures that solutions are deployed safely, rolling out security-sensitive features only to applicable, relevant customers and scenarios to reduce the attack surface
Monitors dependency status and ensures that only the latest, secure versions are deployed
Identifies when rollback plans should be enacted for a project/sub-sub-system of a product
Builds deployment infrastructure to allow developers' private builds for a project/sub-sub-system of a product to be tested in a production-like environment
Drives efforts to integrate logging and instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms, and for allowing monitoring and investigating security-related concerns and scenarios for both live and A/B experiments for products, services, and offerings
Leverages telemetry feedback and effectiveness to independently improve subsequent monitoring designs
Classifies and analyzes data on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs may be occurring), and creates outputs (e.g., notifications, dashboards) that improve monitoring and investigating security-related concerns and scenarios, system monitoring and/or issue identification and mitigation
Considers the privacy implications of telemetry code changes, and adding new data points
Acts as a designated responsible individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on-call to monitor a system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions
Alerts stakeholders as to status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple problems and complex problems when appropriate
Responds within service level agreement (SLA) timeframe
Drives efforts to reduce incident volume, looking globally at incidences and providing broad resolutions
Escalates issues to appropriate owners
Maintains operations of live site service, following security best practices when responding quickly to mitigate issues while using the minimum required permissions to do so that arise on a rotational, on-call basis
Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of live site service and escalates appropriately
Reviews and writes incident postmortem and presents insights that drive changes to reduce or eliminate incidents
Independently improves troubleshooting guides (TSGs), wikis, tests, and telemetry to make on-call better, and recommends user-facing support documentation and additional test coverage to reduce likelihood of future user-initiated incidents
Enables secure operations, security monitoring, and integration with live site investigation activities
Identifies and proposes opportunities (e.g., lunch talks, automation, practices, tools) that can be leveraged to improve the live site experience
Adds comprehensive observability and monitoring to services
Collaborates with and guides appropriate internal (e.g., product manager, privacy/security subject matter expert, technical lead) and external (e.g. customer escalation team, public forums) stakeholders to determine and confirm customer/user requirements for a project/sub-section of a product/solution
Incorporates customer insights into future designs or solution fixes
Ensures unwritten requirements, such as appropriate continuous feedback loops that measure actionable, quantitative (e.g., customer value, usage patterns, solution performance) and qualitative (e.g., accessibility, globalization) indicators of value are incorporated
Understands, provides feedback on, and advocates for security and privacy needs of the customer who will be using the project/sub-section of a product/solution
Qualification
Required
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
equivalent experience
Preferred
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
equivalent experience
Company
Microsoft
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