(Senior) Software Engineer - Microsoft - Copenhagen
How would you like to directly affect the lifes of billions of humans? Would you like your code to run across tens of thousands of machines across datacenters around the world? If you want to be in the high-scale business, we’ve got interesting opportunities for you.
Microsoft Software Engineering Europe offices in Dublin, Copenhagen, Prague, Belgrade, Berlin, Oslo & Tallinn are part of our Experiences & Devices and Azure divisions within Microsoft and transforming Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Azure to empower people and organizations to achieve more.
We are looking for regional flexible candidates with a “can-do” attitude; who are passionately interested in or already experienced in building highly available distributed systems and keen to join Microsoft as a Software Engineer in Europe. We currently have several opportunities available across locations and are looking for candidates who are flexible, curious and keen to move if needed. After you successfully pass our assessment you will be offered an opportunity in one of the above mentioned locations considering your background, experience, business demand and personal preferences.
Responsibilities
- You will work as a Microsoft Software Engineer in one of the above mentioned locations with some of the largest and most scalable services in the world with non-negotiable focus on performance, availability, reliability and consistency.
- You will work in a collaborative environment, with local and remote partners, to turn requirements into simple, elegant, and optimal solutions at large scale.
- You will be responsible for design, implementation, testing, rollout and running software services.
- You will be developing clean and effective code by allowing refactoring when needed and ensuring your code base incl. tests are ready for change.
- You will be part of team discussions on architectural design and solutions continuously looking for improvements.
- You will ship your code to thousands of machines serving millions of users around the world.
Qualifications
- Master's or Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science or related technical disciplines.
- 4+ years of experience designing, coding (C#, C++ or Java), testing, and debugging commercial software.
- Experience in distributed systems and ideally microservices architecture knowledge.
- Strong technical problem-solving skills.
- Strong focus on upfront quality.
- Passion about high performant services, high availability, reliability and consistency.
- Confident, solution- and result oriented, independent working style with great critical thinking.
- Ideally understanding of database systems.
Microsoft Europe offers an enthusiastic, high paced work environment where you can impact millions of users around the world. We are open minded, diverse and work flexible hours. You can look forward to attractive pension plans, personal-, travel- and health insurances (varies by location), vacation as well as state of the art hardware and software in daily use. We are also focusing on your personal and professional development within Microsoft in Europe and beyond.
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.
