Software Engineer 2

Job description

Be part of an elite team of software engineers that engage with open source communities, customers, and partners to make them successful on Microsoft platforms.   Our team acts as the glue between our internal product groups, customers, partners. We advocate for both sides internally and externally: working closely with other engineering groups, providing partner feedback, influencing the roadmap for future product releases develop frameworks, and helping external developers make the best architectural decisions.  

We are very community focused in our work: we have one foot in Microsoft and one foot in the open source communities that we help. We make pull requests on open source projects to add support for Microsoft platforms and/or improve existing implementations. We build frameworks and other tools to make it easier for developers to use Microsoft platforms. We source all of the ideas for this work by maintaining very deep connections with these communities and the customers and partners that use them.   As part of this, we code side by side our customers and partners to get a first-hand feel for points of friction that make it hard for them to be successful and use this context to drive our feedback to our product teams. We also use these experiences to frame up sharing what’s possible with Microsoft platforms: in presentations in relevant conferences, in written format for publication on Microsoft’s developer websites, and one to one with customers and partners.  

This candidate will be responsible for:  

•      Developing software to make communities, customers, and partners successful on Microsoft platforms.    

•      Sharing expertise with, and providing leadership to, customers, partners, and communities worldwide.  

•        High level of impact on internal Microsoft teams to influence the future product roadmap and improve our current offerings through technical feedback.  

•      Driving new ways of thinking across groups within the division to improve quality, engineering productivity, and responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities.  

•      Developing deep relationships with open source communities with high impact on Microsoft’s platform business.  

The ideal candidate will have:    

•      2 + years of software design and development experience  

Preferred qualifications:

•      Demonstrated deep technical development expertise and solid engineering fundamentals.  

•      Experience with open source platforms like node.js, Ruby on Rails, the JVM ecosystem, the Hadoop ecosystem, data platforms like Postgres, MongoDB, and Cassandra, and/or messaging platforms like Apache Kafka.  

•      Existing relationships within open source communities and a deep understanding of how to interact with, and contribute to, these communities.  

•      A deep understanding of cloud computing technologies and emerging trends with deep relevant experience with one of the public cloud vendors.  

•      Great communication, presentation skills, and interpersonal skills.  

•      Demonstrated ability to work independently with high impact results.    

•      Exceptional follow through and attention to detail.  

Microsoft will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance”.

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