Overview

Windows Cloud Experiences (WCX) is developing a best-in-class virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution to enable millions of customers to work with physical and virtual PCs. WCX is hiring a Software Engineer II for the Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) organization, which is recognized as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Desktop as a Service (DaaS) for last 3 years. With the momentum from customers transitioning to cloud-based solutions, Windows 365 and AVD have become a billion-dollar business and continue to experience rapid growth. At its core, W365 and AVD provide customers with a modern, elastic, cloud-based Windows experience that feels like local.

We are looking for a Software Engineer II who’s excited to explore new technologies, write elegant and robust code, and drive engineering excellence across the stack to join the team that builds key technologies for our service fundamental.

In this role, you’ll contribute to rapid, iterative releases and have the opportunity to innovate across multiple areas of our product, from infrastructure to reliability engineering and operations.

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.

Responsibilities

As an Engineer in the Windows 365 team, you will get an amazing opportunity to contribute to both business and technology. You will be a key member of our engineering team, drive full end to end engineering cycle of critical scenario, collaborate with internal partner teams and plan, design, implement and manage our service fundamental with high quality.

In this role you will:

• Work across organizations, collaborating with internal partner teams such as Microsoft Security, Compliance, and Platform Engineering teams like AKS/App service and etc.
• Build and maintain secure, distributed, scalable, and resilient service infrastructure using modern technologies.
• Enforce cloud security best practices, identity and access management (IAM), network security, and compliance standards.
• Architect, build, and maintain scalable, robust automation frameworks and tools for backend services, APIs, and frontend applications.
• Establish and implement mature and efficient DevOps processes such as SDP (release), Livesite, buildout environment and tool chains for high service reliability and availability.
• Participate in On-Call and Site Reliability rotations, ensuring live-site health and driving engineered solutions.
• Executing the full software development lifecycle from architecture and implementation to deployment and live service operations—with accountability for service quality and resilience.
• Participating in engineering excellence initiatives, including code reviews, architecture discussions, and process improvements.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • OR equivalent experience.

Additional or preferred qualifications

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:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Science or other technical field.
• 3+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping apps and/or services.
• Good learning ability.
• Good technical design skills and proven ability to drive system designs for commercial projects or products.
• Good English communication skill.
• Ambitious, self-motivated.
• Agile, can-do attitude and great at dealing with ambiguity.
• Solid coding, debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Solid knowledge of object-oriented programming language paradigms.
• Experience in developing online services.
• Good AI assisted coding practice.

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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.