Senior Software Engineer

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Solid algorithm and data analytical background with very good understanding on how to apply advanced knowledge to solve real world problems.

Nice to Haves:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience in data analytics, modeling, and applying machine learning techniques to solve complex problems.
• Proven experience in designing and developing architectures for large-scale data processing systems.
• Deep proficiency in C# and the .NET Framework, or equivalent programming environments.
• Excellent ability to collaborate effectively with complex partnerships and cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.
• Ability to work independently in a team to deliver innovative solutions solving challenging business/technical problems.
• Ability to handle ambiguities and collaborate across multiple groups.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Apply advanced engineering techniques and machine learning solutions to address complex location inference, geospatial, and mapping challenges in production environments.
• Work across different technology stacks, including processing large-scale data, ranking, and building inferences and services to enhance location-based features.
• Engage closely with stakeholders and partner teams to gather requirements, ensuring the delivery of high-quality location services that meet user needs.
• Drive identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiate actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Perks and Benefits:

• Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.