Senior Software Engineer

Overview

Do you want to help build the real-time video platform behind some of Microsoft’s communication experiences?

The Intelligent Conversation and Communication Cloud (IC3) Video Platform team builds and evolves technologies that enable real-time video experiences across Microsoft products. Our team works across the video stack, including camera capture and device interaction, video processing, encoding, rendering, and platform integration. We focus on delivering reliable, efficient, and high-quality video experiences across devices and platforms.

As a Senior Software Engineer on the IC3 Video Platform team, you will design, develop, and improve foundational video platform technologies. You will solve complex engineering problems involving real-time media, performance, reliability, hardware and operating system integration, and cross-platform software. You will collaborate with engineers and partner teams across Microsoft to develop technical solutions, diagnose production issues, and improve the performance and reliability of the platform.

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

Collaborate with engineers and partner teams to understand customer scenarios, define technical requirements, identify dependencies, and contribute to architecture and design decisions.

Design, implement, test, optimize, debug, and maintain software for real-time video and media platform components, with a focus on performance, reliability, maintainability, security, and efficiency.

Investigate complex video, camera, device, and media pipeline issues across hardware, operating system, and application layers, and develop solutions that improve product reliability and customer experiences.

Use telemetry, diagnostics, performance analysis, and experimentation to understand production behavior, identify performance and reliability opportunities, and evaluate engineering improvements.

Drive technical designs and engineering projects across component and team boundaries, collaborating with partner teams to deliver solutions across supported platforms and device configurations.

Participate in the team’s Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) on-call rotation. Investigate and respond to live-site incidents, collaborate with appropriate partner teams on mitigation and resolution, communicate status to stakeholders, and contribute to improvements that increase service reliability and supportability.

Contribute technical expertise through design and code reviews, documentation, engineering best practices, and mentoring. Identify opportunities to improve the architecture, quality, security, performance, and engineering efficiency of the platform.

Embody our culture and values.

Required/minimum qualifications

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.

Experience developing software that interacts with hardware, devices, operating system components, or platform APIs.

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements is required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or preferred qualifications

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Experience developing production software using C or C++.

Experience designing, developing, or maintaining systems involving real-time media, video, multimedia, or related technologies.

Experience with image or signal processing, video compression, or multimedia technologies such as H.264, HEVC, or AV1.

Experience diagnosing and optimizing software for performance, reliability, memory, or resource efficiency.

Experience contributing to technical designs and collaborating across teams to deliver complex software systems.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $114,400 - CAD $203,900 per year.

Find additional pay information here

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Software Engineering IC4 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 114,400 $ CAD à 203,900 $ CAD par année.

Pour plus d'information au sujet de la rémunération, veuillez cliquer ici:

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.

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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