Software Engineer

Employer

Job Description

As Microsoft continues to develop the Intelligent Cloud & Edge the set of customer experiences will grow every day. In the Mixed Reality Team, we are focused on enabling those experiences with physical devices like HoloLens as well as new devices as paired with innovative services like Mesh in Azure. Our tech moves beyond screens and pixels, creating a new reality aimed at bringing us closer together—whether it is a social gathering in virtual reality or some yet undreamt-of possibility. To get there, we are incorporating diverse groundbreaking technologies, from the revolutionary Holographic Processing Unit to computer vision, machine learning, and human-computer interaction. We are a growing team of talented engineers and artists putting technology on a human path across all Windows devices, including Microsoft HoloLens, IoT, tablets, and desktops.

With the announcement of HoloLens 2 other projects have emerged to help bring AR/VR into more of our daily lives and this role is continuing that effort as the team contributes to new visionary devices. This role is focused on the engineering systems work such as developer environment provisioning, test orchestration, and test execution to empower the developers creating experiences on these existing and new platforms. Your client and service infrastructure code will enable bring-up along with full scale development of applications with internal developers as your customer. You will need to engage with developers across the team to understand requirements, create brand new tools, work in teams to produce results that scale, and measure success via telemetry. Creativity in problem solving will be a common occurrence via writing new code or adopting existing industry solutions with a focus on stability, ease of use, and developer satisfaction

Responsibilities
  • Research, design, and implement tools, systems, and services around build and test systems along with E2E integration of these systems
  • Attention to detail to ensure all deployed systems meet the necessary program legal and security requirements.
  • Provide monitoring, clear technical documentation write-ups on code written as well as running services that allow the systems to follow an ‘Infrastructure As Code’ model and near daily releases to production systems.
  • Coordination with partner hardware and software teams to deliver solutions that maximize code reuse across platforms.
  • Adopt appropriate telemetry strategies to understand how your code is leveraged and overall framework reliability.
  • Engage with a diverse group of collaborators to communicate burn-down status and contribute to a strong team culture.
Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • BS or Masters in Computer Science or similar engineering degree, or 3+ years of equivalent industry experience
  • 2+ years’ experience with source code management tools like GIT
  • 2+ years' experience in Object oriented design, coding, and E2E testing experience in one of more of these languages C++, C#, Objective C, Java, Python, or JavaScript
  • 2+ years experience with build and test systems such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or Artifactory
  • 2+ years experiences with continuous integration and continuous deployment practices.
Let Us Know If You Have

There are plenty of other skills that aren’t required, but which you’ll find useful in this role.
  • Experience building cloud services in either Azure (Functions, Key Vault, IOT Hub, Kusto Query Language, PaaS, SaaS, etc), AWS (Lambda, etc), or other cloud solutions.
  • Daily passion for helping developers get more out of their development and test loops.
  • Development leveraging the Powershell Scripting language
  • Debugging experience on Windows, Android, IOS
  • GitHub project and source code management
  • Unity or Unreal development experience
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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