Backend Engineer

Overview

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work s opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential and excitement for the journey ahead. With continued growth and impact in the browser space, Microsoft's Edge browser is growing to meet these challenges! The Edge browser team is hiring an experienced engineer to join the agile and diverse team that works on V8, the JavaScript and Web Assembly JIT compiler and execution engine that powers Edge.

As a Backend Engineer, you will help plan, design, develop and test software components for enhancements to V8 or new allied product components which may be used in Chromium based products. This opportunity will allow you to develop software, tools and code to be used in support of design, infrastructure and technology platforms as well as commercial or end-user applications. You will primarily use C++ along with other technologies to write code, perform testing and debug any issues with robust documentation, procedures for deployment and processes for maintenance.

This is a flexible work opportunity where you can choose to work remotely for at most one day a week.

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.

Responsibilities

• You will contribute, in partnership with appropriate 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 learn and contribute to processes for the architecture of a product/solution feature and learn to create proposals by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans under the technical leadership of others as well as help produce code to test hypotheses for technical solutions and assist with technical validation efforts.
• With guidance, you will learn to create and implement code that is extensible and maintainable and apply diagnosability, reliability and maintainability, and understand when the code is ready to be shared and delivered for a product, service, or feature using the code as applicable.
• You will learn to review work items to gain knowledge of product features in partnership with appropriate stakeholders and assist and learn about breaking down work items into tasks and providing estimation as well as escalating any issues that would cause a delay.
• You will learn about and contribute to operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis and identify solutions and mitigations to simple issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site services and escalate as necessary.
• You will help develop and contribute to automation within production and deployment of a product feature and run code in simulated or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products with oversight.
• You will embody our culture and values.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C or C#
  • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C++, C or C#
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C++, C or C#
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience working with data structures like hash tables and binary trees, algorithms, and performance analysis.
• Experience with compiler technology, assembly-level programming and/or debugging.

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Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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