Senior Software Engineer - Windows365

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) team. Windows 365 and AVD have been recognized as a leader in the inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for Desktop as a Service (DaaS). The team is seeing strong customer demand from on-premise VDI customers looking to modernize and move to the cloud. The role contributes to one of the key horizon 2 growth areas in the Experiences and Devices (E+D) business.

Responsibilities

Drive end to end engineering cycle of cloud device platform scenarios that scale to provision, manage, and monitor health of millions of cloud-based virtual devices; Mentor and help grow a team of talented, diverse software engineers; Work across organizations, collaborating with internal partner teams such as Azure Compute, Core OS, Microsoft Security and Identity team, and others; Build and maintain secure, distributed, scalable, and resilient micro-services using modern technologies; Raise the technical bar, maintain a data and results driven culture, and nurture a high-performance team to build world-class experiences for W365 and AVD end users, ITPros, partners, and operations teams; Extend knowledge of cloud compute, hypervisors, desktop virtualization, streaming technologies, and other technical areas including cloud-based management suites; Be part of a team designing new platform capabilities involving virtualized compute, storage, networking, GPUs, and streaming protocols (such as Remote Desktop Protocol); Be part of an agile team working with experienced engineers and product managers

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python; OR equivalent experience; Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements; Pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Nice to have

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Science or other technical field; 8+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping apps and/or services; Excellent technical design skills and proven ability to drive large scale system designs for commercial projects or products; Excellent at leveraging AI through all engineering activities including design, coding, validation, deployment, monitoring; Fluent English communication skill; Ambitious, self-motivated; Agile, can-do attitude and great at dealing with ambiguity; Solid coding, debugging and problem-solving skills; Solid AI assisted coding practice; Solid AI agentic experience; Solid knowledge of object-oriented programming language paradigms; Keen interest in mentoring early in career engineers; Ability to generate clarity in ambiguous situations; Ability to quickly ramp up, understand complex problems, and create solutions across many products; Great communication skills to collaborate cross-group and work effectively within the team; Expertise in developing large scale services; Expertise in OS hypervisor; Expertise in virtualization