The Office Experiences Organization (OXO) within the Office Product group (OPG) is growing! OXO includes the core Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), emerging products like Forms and Planner, and platform and services work that powers it all. We build across all platforms- web, mobile, desktop, cloud, and have significant investments in Artificial Intelligence, design, Machine Learning, collaboration, and analytics. We are building impactful new features and adapting existing features to an always-collaborative world, reaching more than 1 billion customers around the world. We are looking for people that value a vibrant and supportive culture and are excited to be building tools that allow other users to achieve success in everyday life. In our design and implementation, we emphasize understanding the customer experience deeply and driving improvements using telemetry and customer feedback. 

You will collaborate with team members and other engineering groups in Microsoft to build full stack applications and services using the latest technologies in a dynamic and agile environment. You will be part of a fun-loving, diverse team that seeks challenges, ships continuously, loves learning, and values teamwork. You won’t be expected to know it all when you join our team, just bring your growth mindset and willingness to learn and we will provide the mentorship and career growth to help you be successful.  

The Office for the web team is looking for a Software Engineer 2 who is passionate about working on high-scale geo-distributed services. These services power the infrastructure behind the Office web applications like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Visio that are part of the Office 365 suite. You will help design, build and run all aspects of these high scale services including monitoring, scalability and reliability. We are gearing up to modernize our infrastructure services to achieve world class scalability and reliability. We seek to build on the site reliability principles to understand distributed systems and high-scale services. If you want hands-on experience in designing, building and running a global service in the M365 and Azure ecosystem, this is the role for you. 

We offer a fantastic and fun team environment with commitment to people, inclusion, and careers, which you will foster and cultivate. We celebrate team cultural values of being:   

Open to listening to and incorporating feedback, bringing people together to brainstorm and communicate ideas. 

Customer-obsessed, both for the engineers relying on what this team delivers and for our external customers. 

Exceptional partners, as we design and collaborate across many teams across the company. 

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

Responsibilities

Write clean well-thought-out code with an emphasis on quality, performance, simplicity, durability, scalability, and maintainability.  

Execute on the team approach to Software Engineering by designing, coding, testing, debugging, building, and deploying across multiple endpoints. 

Demonstrate an understanding of software development concepts including but not limited to algorithms and data structures, testing, debugging, maintenance, and system design.  

Work with engineers, program managers and partner teams to deliver a set of features with the right overall design and architecture.  

Demonstrate the ability to work on cross-platform code. 

Commit to delivering the best experience for customers.  

Help create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self, where all voices are heard, and where we do our best work as a result.  

Qualifications

Basic Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field, or equivalent industry working experience  

3+ years industry software development experience 

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

Preferred Qualifications:

2+ Years of backend or full-stack development experience in developing cloud or web-based services  

2+ years of Software Engineering and experience in testing, deploying and supporting large scale services on Azure, AWS or similar environments  

1+ years of experience in software architecture and design   

Experience in distributed systems, networking, global traffic management or capacity planning is a plus  

Expertise in problem solving and analyzing -diagnosing service health issues at global scale is a plus  

Strong debugging, testing/validation and analytics/telemetry skills; statistics experience is a plus 

Experience in a DevOps culture supporting live site is a plus  

Experience in Asp.net Core, WCF is an added plus   

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