<div class="isg-job-description“>OverviewWe are the Modern Windows Validation team within the Windows Servicing and Delivery (WSD) organization-at the core of WSD’s mission to deliver innovation and updates that keep Microsoft customers secure, productive, and delighted. Our team ensures the reliability, performance, and quality of Windows by building intelligent validation infrastructure, integrating AI agents, and enabling real-time insights through modern engineering practices.We are also actively transforming legacy validation systems into modern, scalable platforms-enhancing execution agility, reliability, and dynamic coverage across the Windows ecosystem. From OS internals to cloud-powered dashboards, we validate and accelerate the delivery of Windows to consumers, enterprises, and Microsoft Cloud customers.We are seeking seeking an innovative Software Engineer II and Senior Software Engineer to help us push the boundaries of performance and reliability. As a Software Engineer on our team, you’ll collaborate with product teams and engineers to build scalable validation systems, leverage OpenAI APIs, and shape the future of Windows quality. This is an opportunity to deepen your technical expertise, drive innovation, and grow your career in a high-impact environment. 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.
ResponsibilitiesDesign and implement scalable solutions using OpenAI APIs and AI agents to enhance system intelligence and automation. Build and maintain validation infrastructure to ensure quality, reliability, and performance of services and platforms. Develop and optimize modern applications on Azure using microservices, containers, and serverless technologies.Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight. Helps toidentifyother teams and technologies that will beleveraged, how they will interact, and when one’s system may provide support to others.Contributes to determiningback-end dependencies associated with product, Application, service, or platform functionality for product features.Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable. Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable. Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects, and understands when the code is ready to be shared and delivered. Applies coding patterns and best practices to write code.Creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests (e.g., unit tests). Adds new tests, removes antiquated tests, and aggregates tests to improve tests in the feature area. Helps to drive efforts for augmenting test cases and ensures that the solution area has good test coverage. Helps to integrate automation features when planning for testing.Identifiesareas to effortsto integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms. Contributes to sustaining feedback loops from telemetry resulting insubsequentdesigns. Helps to create outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards.Embody our culture and values
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