Senior Development Engineer

The Core Platform Driver team is seeking talented engineers who are excited to work on state-of-the-art gaming platform. Our diverse team works at the intersection of hardware and software to provide industry-leading game development technology. Working closely with hardware engineers and game developers, we define the future of graphics and game development.

In Core OS, we are responsible for the Operating Systems that power Azure, Microsoft's Linux OS, the platforms for Windows Client, Xbox, and our Windows Server ecosystem – through all of these, we support every one of our cloud businesses and billions of customers around the world. In this era of ubiquitous computing, systems software excellence has never been more important for Microsoft. High quality, high-efficiency operating systems and platform components underpin everything we do as a company, from making our systems more reliable for our customers, to increasing our competitiveness by reducing COGS, to delivering new features and capabilities to delight customers – that’s all us!

To deliver on our vision, we are looking for candidates with hands on experience with power management within an OS platform (Windows, Linux, iOS) and/or experience within the graphics stack (Graphics engine, runtime, driver, microcode, hardware). Experience with performance analysis and performance tooling a plus.

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.

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 experience in owning/delivering key components of a software product. 

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

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. 

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until Septemeber 28, 2025.

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

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• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine requirements.

• Leads by example within the team by producing extensible, maintainable, and testable code. Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Applies appropriate coding patterns and best practices.

• Leads discussions for the architecture and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans. Provides feedback, proposed solutions, to peers. Owns architecting of solutions, with minimal technical oversight. Assures system architecture meets security and compliance requirements and expectations.

• Independently creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions. Drives efforts to add new tests, remove antiquated tests, and aggregate tests to improve the test suite.

• Applies debugging and performance tooling and examines logs, telemetry, and other methods to verify assumptions through writing and developing code proactively before issues occur and reactively as issues occur for products. Conducts retrospective debugging of solutions to identify root causes of problems.

• Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers. Acts as a key contact for leadership to ensure alignment with partners' expectations.