Microsoft Office Product group (OPG) is at the center of Microsoft’s efforts to empower our users to do more. Across mobile, web, and desktop, empowering users to create, edit, and interact with their documents, embracing a core belief that you should have the best of breed experience irrespective of device. The Data, Insights, and Growth (DIG) team – part of the Office Fuel organization powering engineering capability and customer lifecycle – builds transformative capabilities that help Microsoft teams immerse in understanding, protecting, and empowering the customer via data. We deliver innovative modern data solutions and services which enable new Office experiences at service velocity, intelligent analysis, and richly informed hypothesis-driven agility – driving business success through customer engagement and satisfaction.

We offer a fantastic and fun team environment with a commitment to people, inclusion. We celebrate team cultural values of being:

Customer-obsessed (and helping everyone else live this)

Exceptional partners – designing and co-developing capabilities for and across dozens (to hundreds) of teams

Committed to continual learning and growing in building a high-trust, collaborative, diverse, and deeply inclusive team environment.

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join our Privacy Team, where you will have the opportunity to impact millions of people daily, build world class Privacy, Compliance and Diagnostics systems, and help shape the future of Office, M365. We value great teamwork and rapid innovation and maintain focus on enabling our partners across M365 to make data-informed decisions. 

What we work on:

Our team works on cross-app, cross-platform (including web), cross-company features and capabilities to protect user’s privacy. We work with several teams across Office, Windows, Edge, Teams and other M365 products to solve technical challenges associated with coherent privacy experiences, controls and data leak preventions. 

We are driving privacy score card and adoption of privacy best practices across M365 – what data we collect, the options we give to our customers and how we protect them.  This is increasingly strategic to the M365 business and at the forefront for privacy strategy for the company.

Responsibilities

We’re looking for a candidate with great judgement, solid engineering skills, and the ability and desire to learn and go deep into new technologies.

You will be guiding the team to develop innovative solutions while working across products and platforms so great versatility and learning skills are a must.

You will work on UX components, shared APIs and a scalable backend store for building end to end privacy experiences.

You will have access to cutting-edge technologies, will find the best solution for our users and customers, and will lead with code. When you see something that we could be doing better let us know and help us improve!

Qualifications

Basic Requirements: 

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field, or equivalent industry working experience (4+ years of software development experience)

3+ year professional experience writing applications using an object oriented programming language (examples include: C++, Java, C#, ES6 (ECMAScript 6) /JavaScript, Python, etc.) 

Preferred Qualifications:

3+ years of experience in building and shipping production-grade software or services

Relevant Experience in highly scalable web services, Client SDKs and working knowledge of JavaScript/React/Angular or another similar web stack is highly desirable

Demonstrated experience with coaching and mentoring other engineers. 

Ability to communicate and collaborate with people representing diverse points of view

Willingness to work in an organization with evolving responsibilities and a wide variety of work 

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By applying to this position, you are being considered for multiple like positions within our Office Product Group organization. Job responsibilities will remain the same regardless of final alignment. For this position, the Hiring team is based out of Redmond, with the team open to candidates working remotely or at an alternative Microsoft location." 

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