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WCX is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) organization, which is recognized as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Desktop as a Service (DaaS) for last 3 years. With the momentum from customers transitioning to cloud-based solutions, Windows 365 and AVD have become a billion-dollar business and continue to experience rapid growth. At its core, W365 and AVD provide customers with a modern, elastic, cloud-based Windows experience that feels like local.\nWe are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who’s excited to explore new technologies, write elegant and robust code, and drive engineering excellence across the stack to join the team that builds key technologies for our data platform infrastructure.\nIn this role, you’ll contribute to rapid, iterative releases and have the opportunity to innovate across multiple areas of our product, from infrastructure to data engineering and operations.\nMicrosoft’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.\nResponsibilities\nAs a Senior Software Engineer in our team, you will get an amazing opportunity to contribute to both business and technology. You will be a key member of our engineering team, drive full end to end engineering cycle of critical scenario, collaborate with internal partner teams and plan, design, implement and live site support with high quality.\nIn this role you will:\nDesign, build, and maintain robust pipelines for telemetry, product usage, and experimentation data. \nOwn orchestration, monitoring, and DevOps for critical service workflows. \nDesign data models and APIs that enable Copilot to reason about user context, preferences, and history.\nBuild real-time and batch personalization engines that adapt Copilot’s behavior.\nCollaborate with privacy, security, and responsible AI teams to ensure personalization is safe, transparent, and user controlled.\nOptimize for performance, reliability, and cost across diverse workloads and geographies.\nShip high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code.\nFind a path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into the hands of users quickly and iteratively.\nEnjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle.\nEmbody our Culture and Values. \nQualifications\nRequired/Minimum Qualifications:\nBachelor'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.\nAdditional or preferred qualifications\nOther Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:\nMicrosoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. \nPreferred Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Science or other technical field.\n5+ years of software engineering experience building scalable services and infrastructure on top of cloud infrastructure like Azure, AWS, or GCP.\nExcellent technical design skills and proven ability to drive large scale system designs for commercial projects or products.\nExperience and involvement with DevOps.\nFluent English communication skill.\nExperience with large scale cloud service.\nAmbitious, self-motivated.\nAgile, can-do attitude and great at dealing with ambiguity.\nSolid coding, debugging and problem-solving skills.\nSolid knowledge of object-oriented programming language paradigms.\nAbility to generate clarity in ambiguous situations.\nAbility to quickly ramp up, understand complex problems, and create solutions across many products.\nGreat communication skills to collaborate cross-group and work effectively within the team.\nExpertise in developing large scale services.\nExperience monitoring system performance, diagnosing and resolving issues, and implementing improvements to ensure reliability and a seamless user experience.\n#W+DJOBS\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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