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Any Developer. Any App. Any Platform.
Microsoft continues to make big investments to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Come join the team responsible for delivering the Visual Studio family of products. It's an incredibly rich space with many challenging technical problems begging for well-designed, well-executed and innovative solutions.
In a 2019 survey done by stackoverflow.com, Visual Studio & Visual Studio Code were the top 2 most popular development environments & tools. Our tools & services help a wide spectrum of developers all the way from professional developers to middle school students.
We create solutions together in a rich, collaborative environment and while we work hard together, work/life balance and having fun are also core values. Make your mark, make an impact, and make developers the most successful and productive in the world!
Read about, and try, the most recent releases of the Visual Studio family of products here: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com.
We are looking for a senior software engineer to help us deliver tools & services to significantly improve developers’ productivity, in particular improving the Extensibility platform in Visual Studio. Our work includes providing platform features to the Visual Studio IDE to enable rich, reliable, and performant experiences for both built-in Visual Studio features as well as 3rd party extensions. We also strive to constantly evolve our ecosystem to better support extension developers as well as Visual Studio customers.
In this role, you will interact with various teams across Visual Studio family, spanning both program managers and engineers. You will interact with Visual Studio partners to better understand how they plug into our ecosystem and how you can help resolve their issues. Your work will not only delight customers who use Visual Studio as their development environment, but also Visual Studio partners who expand the impact of the IDE to provide custom scenarios.
You will work in a collaborative and inclusive environment. Our team delivers features which ship to customers frequently and we learn from their feedback. You will build simple and powerful experiences in developer tools and instrument them to monitor the health of the tools and services. The software you build will help millions of developers all over the world.
You will become part of a team where learning from peers and growing as a team is a core principle. You will be part of a culture where impact is not only measured by what you achieve, but what you help others achieve.
5+ years of experience developing commercial software
- Loves working with a smart, technical customer base
- Enjoys figuring out difficult technical problems in a foundational space that will affect Visual Studio's ability to deliver on features that target new platforms or provide new experience
- Likes the idea that the code you build & design has one of the most direct correlations to developer satisfaction, and by delivering high quality, performant, and elegant experiences you can greatly enhance a developer's day-to-day enjoyment
- Wants to be part of and build a motivated and collaborative engineering team
- Eager to design, implement, debug, and deliver rich developer experiences and services using C# and/or C++
- Delights in leading a project and helping others grow technically
- Software design, coding and debugging experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field or professional software development experience
- Experience with large scale application development using C# or C++
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: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
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.
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