Job Description

The Office Media Group (OMG) has a simple vision - to empower millions of customers to achieve more with media. The team builds services, applications, and experiences that bring the power of media, including video, photos, and more to every Office customer.

Within Office Media Group, Microsoft Stream team, our rapidly growing business video sharing service, is a team of passionate and dedicated engineers who are working to build best-in-class video services for the enterprise. This is done by combining advanced video streaming technologies, such as Just In Time (JIT) encoding, with cutting edge machine learning and AI technologies such as Azure Cognitive Services to make video an everyday habit! Taking advantage of the latest web and cloud technologies, the team is building tools to make it easy to capture and create, to share, discover, and consume video across Office 365 platform. In addition we are working with various teams around Microsoft to bring the best video experience into other Microsoft applications, including SharePoint, Office.com, PowerPoint, Microsoft Teams, Yammer, and Outlook.

For more about Microsoft Stream:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-stream

We're looking for a talented and self-driven Software Engineer who loves technical challenges. If you enjoy building software with a broad range of technologies, collaborate across Microsoft, and being part of an agile team aiming at making software development better, come join us!

You would be responsible for designing and building cloud services and web applications at scale. Working with a team of talented engineers, you will be responsible for driving the development of major features. You will also collaborate with project managers, data scientists, designers and other engineers to gather requirements for your feature design. You are comfortable having your code reviewed and reviewing the code of others.

Some of the other responsibilities that you would have include:u202F

* Have well-thought-out designs that consider scale, performance, maintainability, and costs.
* Implement high quality code that needs little attention after completion, and raise the bar on the code written by others.
* Work with PMs, Data and Designer team to incorporate requirements and information that will impact the implementation.
* Mentor junior members on the development team through design and code reviews.
* Participate in, and grow the team's culture.

u202FREQUIRED:

* 8+ years of object-oriented programming experience (e.g. C++, C, Python, Java or TypeScript etc.)
* 2+ years of experience building production cloud services at scale
* 5+ years of experience shipping production services or client software
* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

PREFERRED:

* Proven ability to work collaboratively in a team
* Highly self-motivated and independent
* Excellent debugging skills
* Passion for crafting elegant code
* Experience with building and maintaining container-based high scale cloud services
* Experience resolving build infrastructure issues
* Experience handling media data such as images or videos
* Basic understanding of databases (both SQL and NO-SQL)
* Ability to quickly ramp up, understand complex problems, and create solutions across many products

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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