Software Engineer

Are you looking to grow your skills and technical experience working at scale on one of the largest software pipelines on the planet? The come join us as we further develop our capabilities around “Windows as a Service” and delighting our in-market customers around the world.

The Windows Servicing Division or WSD is responsible for keeping the Windows ecosystem always up-to-date to ensure customers are protected and productive. We manage the Windows Servicing Engineering System, which applies state of the art and current technologies against both current and legacy Windows releases. The responsibility of Update Publishing Services (UPS) is to push updates and releases of Windows family of devices out to a billion+ users, both consumers and Enterprise. We’re on a mission to modernize these business-critical services and provide CI/CD capabilities that allow for agile and just-in-time updates to customers including Enterprises, End-User Clients, Azure, and the Developer community.

In support, Update Publishing Services team is seeking a highly driven Software Engineer who will be responsible for all aspects of service execution and life cycle (design, development, quality assurance, production deployment, service availability & reliability, and live site monitoring). This is a complex juggling act of innovating for new business investments while keeping the daily rhythm of the business of servicing over a billion users running.

Our team is a multi-discipline team whose core responsibilities include building tools, defining workflows and designing features to manage our large-scale distributed release systems. The team provides opportunities in multiple areas of interest, spanning across operating system internals, scalable services for supporting the delivery of updates to a vast and heterogeneous ecosystem that’s constantly growing, including continuous efforts to improve internal engineering systems leveraged by the immediate team and those dependent upon services within the engineering system. WSD provides programs and services to promote development agility, experience coherence & customer engagement and fuels growth in our security business through device and cloud innovations. 

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

• Modernization of workflows that support the publishing pipeline and future automation orchestration.
• Design, write and deliver software to improve automation, availability, reliability, scalability, security, resiliency, and efficiency of complex distributed systems.
• Debug/troubleshoot the complete stack of publishing services, drive analysis of issues and outages, write software and build automation to resolve production problems with durable system fixes.
• Design and implement telemetry, service observability solutions, and analytics that provide real-time feedback and health of supported solutions.
• DevOps responsibilities for Live site - support what we build.
• Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for operating software defined network services and systems; assess design and code changes to drive improvements.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Must be legally authorized to work in Ireland (Legally authorized = Has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit).

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

• OR equivalent experience.

• Demonstrated understanding of software engineering principles such as abstraction and inversion of control, with the ability to apply them to develop testable, reliable, and maintainable code in one or more of the following languages: C#, C++/C, Python, or Java.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Software Engineering, directly supporting Services development & test in a high-scale production environment.
• Capable of technical deep dives into service and systems design, data processing and data movement pipelines, networking, storage, monitoring, security, and capacity planning.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability to deliver projects and results of increasing technical complexity and ability to handle ambiguity.
• Ability to pick up new technologies and stay on the cutting edge of development.
• Experience building web service and restful designs.
• Experience in Azure.
• Insight and intuitive thinking to recognize, address proactively and solve hard problems that span technology, development models, testing, and other areas.
• Great design and problem-solving skills, with a strong emphasis on quality and engineering excellence.
• Excellent communications skills, both verbal & written, and ability to work well in a diverse, multicultural, team-focused environment.
• Passionate about sharing your experiences and knowledge.

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.

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