Senior Software Engineer - Windows365

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team.     Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) have recently been recognized as a leader in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Desktop as a Service (DaaS). We are seeing tremendous customer pull from on premise Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) customers that want to modernize and move from on prem VDI to the cloud. Windows 365 and AVD combined are already a billion-dollar business today and we are seeing rapid growth in revenue and usage, this is one of the key horizon 2 growth areas in our Experiences and Devices (E+D) business.  Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

As a Senior Software Engineer in our team, you will get an amazing opportunity to contribute to both business and technology. You will be a key member of our engineering team, drive full end to end engineering cycle of critical scenario, collaborate with internal partner teams and will be accountable for shipping service offerings that succeeds with our customers.  In this role you will:  Drive end to end engineering cycle of cloud device platform scenarios that scales to provision, manage, and monitor health of millions of cloud-based virtual devices.  Mentor and help grow a team of talented, diverse software engineers.  Work across organizations, collaborating with internal partner teams such as Azure Compute, Core OS, Microsoft Security and Identity team, and others.  Build and maintain secure, distributed, scalable, and resilient micro-services using modern technologies.  Raise the technical bar, maintain a data and results driven culture, and nurture a high-performance team to build world-class experiences for W365 and AVD end users, ITPros, partners, and operations teams.  Get to extend your knowledge of cloud compute, hypervisors, desktop virtualization, streaming technologies, and other technical areas including cloud-based management suites.  Be part of a team designing new platform capabilities involving virtualized compute, storage, networking, GPUs, and streaming protocols (such as Remote Desktop Protocol) for our core products to enhance the value to our customer base.  Be a part of an agile team working with experienced engineers and product managers that behave more like a frontier startup in AI era.

Required/Minimum Qualifications: 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. OR equivalent experience. Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Science or other technical field.   8+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping apps and/or services.  Excellent technical design skills and proven ability to drive large scale system designs for commercial projects or products.  Excellent at leveraging AI through all engineering activities including design, coding, validation, deployment, monitoring.  Fluent English communication skill. Ambitious, self-motivated. Agile, can-do attitude and great at dealing with ambiguity. Solid coding, debugging and problem-solving skills.