Software Engineer - Systems

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.

We’re a company of learn-it-alls rather than know-it-alls and our culture is centered around embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. Does this sound like you? .

 As a Software Engineer in Operating Systems, you will develop systems software, frameworks, and platform level code used in support of hardware. You will contribute to Operating Systems like Windows and Azure Linux and participate in design and development to power Azure infrastructure in the cloud, Edge, technology platforms for commercial, and/or end-user applications.

This opportunity will allow you to create and implement extensible and maintainable code for a product, service, or feature. You will partner with stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature and consider a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. You will collaborate with others to create a clear and articulated plan for testing, assuring quality of solutions, while applying knowledge of debugging tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively flag issues. This opportunity will allow you to learn about customer scaling requirements and the application of best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations, while ensuring the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility.

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.

Please note this application is only for roles based in our Redmond, Washington office and/or roles that are not tied to a specific Microsoft office location. For roles in other offices in the United States, please see our . 

• Applies software engineering principles to solve complex problems on product Hardware and Operating systems.

• Learns and contributes to processes for the architecture of a product/solution feature and learns to create proposals by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans under the technical leadership of others. 

• Seeks feedback and applies internal or industry best practices to improve technical solutions. 

• Contributes to partnership with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements for a feature.  

• Develops knowledge of and learns to apply best practices to reliably build code that is based on well-established methods. Develops an understanding of global and local regulations for technologies and system applications. 

• Problem solves and debug modern-day multiprocessor systems.  

• Demonstrates an understanding of how to write/debug code.