Microsoft · 7 hours ago
Software Engineer II
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
$101K/yr - $199K/yr
2+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company that empowers every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. The Secure Platform Foundation team is seeking a talented software engineer to drive innovations in system initialization technologies that govern security throughout firmware and pre-kernel execution logic, ensuring a robust foundation for devices from power-on through operating system handoff.
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Responsibilities
Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features
Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight
Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable
Collaborates with a dynamic team of engineers, including mentoring other engineers in the workgroup
Drives for quality in everything and continuously seeks to improve the systems relied upon
Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation
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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C/C++ OR equivalent experience
1+ year experience with multithreaded programming, operating systems, device drivers and/or firmware
Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Preferred
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, Assembly (x86/ARM), Rust OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, Assembly (x86/ARM), Rust OR equivalent experience
Experience with Git for source code management
Background in hardware architecture internals
Familiarity with hardware and software debugging
Benefits
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Company
Microsoft
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