Software Engineer II

Are you passionate about redefining how people communicate by building the next generation messaging software? Interested in taking the familiar Outlook experience, used by millions, to the next level? The Desktop Outlook team is looking for an experienced Software Engineer II who can contribute to the design and development of Co-Pilot and Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven productivity features to unlock transformative value for users and enterprises in an AI driven world. In this role, you will have opportunity to design and develop the code that will underpin new scenarios and capabilities and deliver new storage, business logic, directory, people/contacts, networking, and protocols in conjunction with Office partner teams. 

We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer II with passion for communications and productivity space. On the Desktop Outlook team, we are making broad investments in the platform to win AI. From enhancing the most-used Office product, Outlook to transforming it into the best AI-based client experience will be the engine that powers how humans interact with each other. We will drive all our enhancements by understanding our customers in a way that we have never done before. By doubling down on real-time monitoring and telemetry, we will enable a much faster ship cadence than has ever been possible in such a high-volume product. As such, good collaboration skills and experience designing infrastructure is highly preferred.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Your key responsibilities will include the following:

• Participate in planning to discover where investments need to be made and to understand the customer.
• Brainstorm solutions.
• Investigate possible design directions and new technologies.
• Write a development design plan including core design, unit test, and relevant telemetry.
• Implement the solution.
• Validate, stabilize, and check in the feature.
• Monitor telemetry to continue to validate the features in production.
• Help diagnose service health and outages.

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C++, C#.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Outstanding cross-discipline collaboration skills.
• Ability to deliver outstanding results in fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Deep passion for customers, design thinking, and technology.
• High learnability on the AI stack.

Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience owning and developing features end-to-end
• 3+ yrs of relevant experience in the high-tech industry
• Experience writing object-oriented native-code C++.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.