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Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us achieve our mission.

Microsoft Devices group focuses on building devices that fully express the Microsoft vision. A fundamental part of our strategy is having desirable and powerful devices that enable the experiences people want and elicit their excitement. Creating these devices involves a close partnership between hardware and software engineers, designers, and manufacturing. We are currently building the next generation products and we need you!

Within Microsoft Devices group, Devices Engineering Services (DES) team’s mission is to Empower Engineers to achieve more by providing modern Engineering Systems and Services needed for end to end product lifecycle (design, develop, manufacture, post-launch engineering, Security etc.) for Device products like Surface, HoloLens etc.  DES Services include but not limited to SW & FW Builds, OS Imaging Builds, SW Security Services, LOB App / Web Services, Platform & Infrastructure Services etc.

Responsibilities

The DES team is seeking a passionate Software Engineer II to help drive growth and scalability for the business. As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for delivering Build/Release Automation solutions for software and firmware, empowering engineers to automate builds, packaging, and OS image generation through fully automated Continuous Integrations (CI). You will work closely with Devices Software development teams across all disciplines to understand their requirements and create/maintain Build pipelines to meet those needs. This is an exciting opportunity to demonstrate broad leadership and impact across Devices.

Ideal candidates for this position should have a degree in computer science or other engineering field, with excellent expertise in providing secure build/release automation solutions. Strong leadership and problem-solving skills are essential, as well as the ability to communicate effectively and work well in cross-group situations. Attention to detail is crucial. Are you up for the challenge?

Responsibilities:

• Write high quality, maintainable and high-performance code following proven development principles

• Design, develop and operate large scale, efficient and reliable DevOps pipelines

• Develop Devices build and imaging pipelines

• Resolve complex build integration issues by working with other members of the team and product teams

• Monitor Product CI builds for downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and taking appropriate actions to restore them

• Identify opportunities and drive the implementation of automation to improve Developer productivity

• Embody our culture and values

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors/ Masters degree in Computer Science or other Engineering field

• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer

• 6+ years of Development using GIT, PowerShell, Build and Release(CICD) automation, YAML, Azure DevOps & Azure

• 4+ years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g. C#, Java, C++ etc.)

• Deep understanding of Security & Quality Tools needed

• Experienced with at least two end-to-end product life cycles as a developer for medium to large scale product

• Excellent track record in developing Software / Firmware / OS Image build processes and automation solutions

• Excellent leadership, communication, teamwork and collaboration skills across organizations

• Strong problem solving and debugging skills

• Passionate, motivated, self-driven and quick learner

Preferred but not mandatory:

• Knowledge and experience in Firmware, Drivers, UEFI and building and packaging.

• Experiences with Containers, Kubernetes, MSBuild & Python

• Experience with Windows Deployment and Imaging Tools (ADK, DISM etc.)

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) .