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Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential - and excitement for the journey ahead.

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.

About the team and the role:

Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) have recently been recognized as a leader in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Desktop as a Service (DaaS). We are seeing tremendous customer pull from on premise Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) customers that want to modernize and move from on-prem VDI to the cloud. Windows 365 and AVD combined are already a billion-dollar business today and we are seeing rapid growth in revenue and usage. This is one of the key horizon 2 growth areas in our Experiences and Devices (E+D) business.  

As a Software Engineer in the Windows 365 team, you will be responsible for the end-to-end development of the data intensive, AI/ML powered solutions that will help Windows 365 and AVD customers gain the strategic insights and the most optimal intelligent experience, maximize their return of investment and reduce the total cost of ownership.  

You will apply data engineering, statistics, AI/ML skills to big data problems using the latest and most modern technologies, design and develop reporting, alerting, troubleshooting, recommendations and IT Copilot features for large-scale data with AI/ML and LLM.   

Responsibilities

• Learn to review and break down work items into tasks with stakeholder collaboration, provide estimations, and escalate delays, while also supporting feature deployments to customers, considering user and service impacts, and adhering to best deployment practices for safety.

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to define feature requirements, integrate feedback to enhance design, and establish feedback loops for continuous improvement based on customer metrics.

• Learn and apply coding standards and best practices through code reviews, developing maintainable and extensible code with guidance. Utilize debugging tools to proactively and reactively address issues in product features, ensuring code quality and reliability.

• Support the identification of dependencies and design documentation for product features, learn about system interactions and back-end dependencies, and contribute to architectural processes under guidance. Produce code to test hypotheses for technical solutions and assist with technical validation efforts. Collaborate on quality assurance plans, augment test cases, and integrate automation into testing, while understanding the implications of security and compliance in system architecture.

• Contribute to data analysis and feedback integration for product engineering decisions, acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for monitoring and restoring system functionality within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Participate in live service operations, and support telemetry data integration for system behavior insights, with a focus on performance, reliability, and safety.

• Develop and apply best practices for reliable code building, understand global and local regulations, customer scaling requirements, and support communication with key partners across Microsoft for user experience enhancement and partner needs.

• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, safety, and accessibility standards, leverage developer tools for code creation and debugging, contribute to automation in production and deployment, and proactively seek knowledge to improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance at scale.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree (or currently pursuing a 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Have solid knowledge of fundamentals like data structures and algorithms. 

• Experience with big data, AI/ML, or cloud technologies. 

• Familiar with coding in languages such as C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.

• Proficiency in English, exhibiting good written and verbal communication skills. 

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