Senior Software Engineer

We are a small, distributed, and growing team primarily based out of Redmond, WA. As a Senior  Software Engineer on the Windows Incubation team,you will build with the latest advances in the Windows platform, OS/silicon integration, cloud/client computing and WebUI development. You will partner with Product Management and Design to develop ideas to solve customer problems, and prototypes to learn from. Together with your team, you will design and implement innovative solutions to some of the most complex problems. You are open and adaptable, ready to dive into and learn and/or contribute to diverse codebases and technologies. You will contribute to engineering systems, testing, and tools to improve the team's efficiency. You will use telemetry and data to learn of the customer experience and adapt the product accordingly. 

Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.  
Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.  
Leads by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable. Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).  
Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.  
Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products.  
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.

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
4+  years of experience developing Operating System components OR Windows applications 
2+ years of C++ development experience