• Senior Software Engineer

    Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, WA)


    Are you passionate about web performance? We are looking for a **Senior Software Engineer** (Front-end) to join our team of performance experts that get to drive all aspects of web performance for one of the biggest modern collaboration platforms in the world - Microsoft Teams. We help feature teams ship quality performant experiences out of the gate, track key performance metrics for critical high-volume scenarios, drive culture of performance by promoting best practices and consulting.

     

    As a team, we obsess about learning, diving deep into areas of opportunities, experimenting and use an evidence-based approach to turning opportunities into positive impact on performance of the product through collaboration.

     

    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

    + Identify opportunities for improvements through profiling, developing proofs of concepts, measuring impact to performance improvements across critical areas of our application

    + Partner and collaborate with feature teams to help them to deliver high quality performant experiences

    + Drive adoption of performance best practices, through consulting and presenting deep dives

    + Track key performance metrics and their instrumentation, at build time as well as from production telemetry, investigate regressions

    + Help shape vision for future performant architecture and patterns as the application evolves

    Qualifications

    Required 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.

    + 4+ years of industry programming, software development, and/or software engineering experience.

    + Great understanding of React internals, including rendering, performance and state management.

    + Proficiency in React, React ecosystem and best practices, significant web app development and debugging experience.

    + Solid understanding of web tech - JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3.

    + Prior experience in solving performance problems in complex web apps.

    Other 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:

     

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

    Preferred Qualifications:

    + Bachelor'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 equivalent experience.

    + Good understanding of browser internals, rendering lifecycle, and critical rendering path.

    + Proficiency with React Profiler/React Render Tracker.

    + Solid experience with Edge DevTools and debugging techniques.

    + GraphQL experience.

    + Experience solving challenging problems and cross team/organization collaboration skills.

    + Curiosity to dive deep, continuously learn and experiment.

    + Passion for collaboration and knowledge sharing.

     

    Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

     

    Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

     

    Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 23rd, 2025.

     

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    Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .