Senior Software Engineer

The Microsoft Spatial AI Lab in Zurich, Switzerland, is a research and development team building the future of spatial computing. We are looking for software engineers who share our passion for developing innovative technology that can be deployed to the cloud and utilized by millions of users.  

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Spatial AI Lab, you are going to build innovative solutions and cutting-edge prototypes in collaboration with researchers. You will build cloud services to help humans and robotic agents to understand the environment, recognize objects, and perform tasks.  

This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, grow your expertise in cloud computing, and get experience with Spatial AI, computer vision, and machine learning. 

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

• Works within a team to achieve goals and objectives across services, including understanding user requirements, design, and coding.  
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). 
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. 
• 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. 
• 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 while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. 

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
• Senior-level professional experience developing, and shipping high quality software and design experience, using one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: C#, C/C++, Python 
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS).
• Understanding of DevOps tools and methodologies, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automated testing.  
• Minimum of a bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Design, Software Engineering or a related field or equivalent alternative education, skills, and/or practical experience is required.

Other Requirements

Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that 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

• Experience developing distributed systems.
• Experience with multi-threaded programming. 
• Self-driven, results oriented, high integrity, ability to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes.  
• Passion for working in fast paced environment and with diverse teams. 

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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