Software Engineer

Overview

The HR Employee Experience Engineering team builds, runs, and continuously improves the mission of critical products and services that power Microsoft’s internal workforce. We turn bold ideas into transformational solutions that make Microsoft teams work smarter, faster, and more securely every single day.

A core pillar of our mission is artificial intelligence (AI) enabled empowerment: we embed intelligent automation, large language model (LLM) driven assistants, and predictive analytics into every product to surface the right information at the right time, streamline routine tasks, and uncover insights that help employees thrive.

Our engineers bring deep technical expertise, strong business acumen, and firsthand experience at massive scale. We are technology leaders, digital transformation agents, and passionate customer advocates who love solving real world problems for both Microsoft and our external partners.

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

• Works with appropriate internal stakeholders (e.g., product manager, privacy/security subject matter expert, technical lead) to understand and determine customer/user requirements for a set of features. 
• Reviews product feature code and test code to ensure it meets team standards, contains the correct test coverage, and is appropriate for the product feature. 
• Considers diagnosability, reliability, testability, and maintainability when reviewing code and understands when code is ready to be shared or delivered.
• With minimal supervision, tests and explores various design options for a product/solution feature, outlining strengths and weaknesses of each option. 
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable with minimal supervision.
• Uses appropriate AI tools and practices across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) in a disciplined manner. 
• Applies best practices to build code based on well-established methods and secure design principles while also applying best practices for new code development and formal validation of security invariants. 
• Understands and applies security best practices and establishes code invariants to model "security as code," ensuring each layer is independently secure, and minimizing risk with minimal supervision.
• Adopts security standards for clear security code review practices for a set of product features that align with design and engineering principles to raise the security hardening for both protections and detections.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as C, C++, C#, or Java, with demonstrated coding experience.
  
  

Preferred Quilifications

Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, and Java. OR

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. OR equivalent experience.

2+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices.

2+ years of experience with web services, distributed message processing, and managing live site issues.

2+ years of experience deploying and maintaining systems, including ownership of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure components.

Experience with Power Platform and Microsoft Dynamics 365 related applications is a plus.

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.