DCS Software Engineer 2 Microsoft
Issaquah, WA

Job Description

How would you like to impact the experience of 800 million users per month? Be on the forefront of digital transformation? Microsoft's Customer Service and Support is transforming how we engage with customers online; we are creating a world class support experience for our customers and empower customers to self-solve more of their issues and be more satisfied with their self-help experience.

We are actively hiring for Digital Customer Support Software Engineers to join the team that designs and builds software features, services, diagnostics and products to provide digital support experiences to customers and support engineers, integrating with existing systems and platforms as needed. This position reports to a Digital Customer Support Software Engineering Lead for either Experiences + Devices (E+D), Cloud + Artificial intelligence (C+AI), and Modern Life + Gaming workstreams and offers the ability to focus on customer scenarios spanning multiple backend platforms that are the basis of Microsoft's Azure, Office 365, and Gaming experiences.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering IT technical discipline or equivalent engineering/software/services experience

2+ years of experience as a software engineer or software developer

Experience coding and debugging in languages such as C#, C++, Java, or similar modern development languages

Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms, programming patterns, and solving complex problems

Demonstrated history of excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Demonstrated history of good decision-making, conflict resolution, and follow through

Strong written & oral communication skills

Highly Desirable: Knowledge of frameworks such as Angular.js, React, Ruby on Rails

Highly Desirable: Experience with big data solutions, technologies, and analysis tools such as Azure Data lake, Azure Data factory, Hadoop, R-server, Python, etc.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

We are looking for Software Engineers that are ready to take on a new challenge and has experience building features and capabilities for online services. You will work on components of customer's online support experience built upon machine learning and artificial intelligence on large-scale platforms. A successful candidate should have experience in multiple phases of development cycle and will leverage this experience to design, build, deploy, and maintain online support features for customers.

Successful candidates will exhibit various attributes which will enhance their ability to succeed in these various positions.

Collaboration - As most development is about working with others, both within an immediate team, as well as across business units and portions of the company, an ability to collaborate effectively is a core competency to have.

Customer Focus - Understands how engineering decisions result in added customer value.

Drive For Results - Being able to drive for results, not merely finding the boundary of your responsibility,

but following a problem through to its conclusion, to solve it once and for all, is a skill and ability which a successful engineer should exhibit.

Technical Excellence - Core to being a software engineer is of course technical excellence. This is not merely knowing the latest and greatest language developments, but demonstrating a passion for technology, a curiosity to 'go deep', and an ability to quickly learn and build upon past experiences, to be able to extrapolate from those experiences, and deliver innovations. Technical excellence is rooted in having a strong demonstrable aptitude for problem solving.

You will be directly responsible for the definition, design or development of customer-facing products/services.