Microsoft Software Development Engineer 

Spain, Catalonia, Barcelona 

736878340

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or related technical discipline.
• Years of software engineering and product development experience in industry
• Years of proven track record of shipping end-user software services or products
• Years of in-depth object-oriented programming experience in (not limited to) Java/C++/C#
• Equal ability in reading and enhancing existing code as well as writing entirely new code from scratch. ​

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/Additional Qualifications​​

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Physics or related technical discipline.
• Experience with open-source software components.
• Experience working on continuous integration and flighting services toolset.
• Great curiosity and willingness to question.
• High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced competitive environment.
• Have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find winning solutions and celebrate successes.
• Get excited by the challenge of hard technical problems.
• Love the next problem, the next experiment, the next partner.
• Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers.
• Experience working with Azure Service Fabric or Azure Kubernetes Service.​

• ​​Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to establish and improve performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for product scenarios.
• Drive identification of dependencies and the documentation and development of design to completion for a feature, product, application, service, or platform.
• Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., product managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers in 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.
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.​