Senior Software Engineer

• Agility: Ability to think, understand, and process information quickly.
• Algorithm Design and Implementation: The ability to design, analyze, implement, optimize, profile and experimentally evaluate computer algorithms. Includes knowledge of practical applications of algorithms in software engineering.
• Architecture Design: The ability to apply reference architecture and patterns for a variety of solutions (e.g., advanced analytics, artificial intelligence, big data, Internet of Things, modern business intelligence and analytics, modern applications, data platform modernization, data warehousing, business intelligence and analytics, etc.).
• Collaborative Innovation: Knowledge of others' expertise and the ability to involve multiple players (within and outside the organization) in the creation or development of novel products, processes, or research streams.
• Computer Science: The ability to apply computer science principles (e.g., data structures, algorithms, run-times), statistics and computer architecture to implement, adapt, or apply concepts when programming.
• Conflict Resolution: The ability to manage conflict, disharmony, and strife among people and situations, while recognizing and addressing sensitivities.
• Decision Making: The ability to make decisions in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment. This includes the ability to define, diagnose, and determine an appropriate resolution, recommendation, or decision while considering alternatives and factors (e.g., resources, costs, tradeoffs).
• Design Readiness: The ability to deliver informed designs and plans ahead of production and execution. This includes the ability to ensure there is time for feedback and iterations for deadlines.
• Detail Oriented: The ability to attend to and verify the accuracy and completeness of detailed information in documents, on the computer, and/or in other work products. This includes being able to code, file, compile, transcribe, classify, and/or track details from a variety of different sources/problems/issues.
• Engineering Lifecycle: Knowledge of the engineering lifecycle that provides for task estimation, design and code review, specification review, bug triage, code check-in, sign-off, test targeting, and performance standards to meet customer and business goals.
• English Language Proficiency: The ability to speak and understand English when giving instructions and directions, and when talking with colleagues, managers, and others for work matters.

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• Coding: Coaches others to review code of a product to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft's quality standards, is reliable and accurate, and is appropriate for the scale of the product/solution. Applies feedback to current and future iterations. Participates in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed. Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability when reviewing code and understands when code is ready to be shared or delivered. Applies and screens for coding patterns and best practices in reviews, and provides feedback on code to drive adherence to best practices.
• Design: Coaches others and leads discussions for architecture of products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans. Provides reactions, proposed solutions, and inputs to architects. Partially owns to provide solutions for architecting of solutions, with minimal technical oversight. Develops and mentors others in development of design documents for designs or User Stories, and determines the technology that will be leveraged and how it will interact. Coaches others and shares learnings and identified solutions from investigations with the team and owns for some design decisions. Coaches employees to consider, and assures system architecture meets security and compliance requirements and expectations.
• Engineering Excellence: Builds and maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers. Acts as a key contact for leadership to ensure alignment with partners' expectations. Builds partner teams across Microsoft (e.g., Xbox, Office) and their end goals for products to drive and achieve desirable user experiences and fitting dynamic needs of partners/customers through product development. Monitors project progress.
• Implement: Coaches others on deployment appropriate environments. Ensures the correct measures are in place to deploy products. Considers and accounts for the impact of build deployments on both users and other services. Is accountable for safe deployment practices for code and configuration. Coaches others and drives efforts to assure that solutions are deployed in a safe manner.
• Reliability and Supportability: Coaches others and drives efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, utility, and safety mechanisms. Drives sustainment of feedback loops from telemetry resulting in subsequent designs. Creates outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards.
• Understand User Requirements: Coaches and supports partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements within teams. Leverages a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. Coaches incorporation of appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value.