Overview As a Senior Software Engineer on the PowerPoint Live team, you will help improve how people present and collaborate within Microsoft Teams meetings. You will work on the client, focusing on fundamentals such as performance, loading, and rendering, while also bringing new Copilot features to PowerPoint Live. Success in this role requires technical depth across client architecture, middleware, and familiarity with the backend systems that support these services end to end. You will use agentic coding and the latest tools to help make PowerPoint Live better. You will be part of a collaborative engineering group based in Vancouver, BC, working closely with teams in Mountain View, CA, Redmond, WA, and other global locations. In this role, you will help solve complex challenges involving performance, scalability, and reliability as you evolve the PowerPoint experience across cloud-connected environments.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

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.

Responsibilities

• From fast evolving new features to long-term architecture investments, you will be responsible for shipping robust, performant, reliable and delightful experiences to millions of customers.
• Team members collaborate on every detail of design, implementation, validation and monitoring of feature usage and health across PowerPoint desktop clients and backend services.
• You will get a chance to enrich the core of PowerPoint, which is powered by our native C++ and TypeScript codebases, making product changes that allow us to stay in lockstep with the changing needs of our customers.
• You will get a chance to make PowerPoint Live better and more resilient.
• You will be required to understand telemetry data to run and improve the service. All team members participate in a live-site rotation.
• You will have the opportunity to advance engineering excellence by driving design discussions, contributing to code reviews, and participating in knowledge sharing sessions.
• Embody our Culture and Values.

Qualifications 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.

• 2+ years experience in application platform and architecture.

• 2+ years experience with user-facing client applications.

Other Requirements Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Proficiency in object-oriented design, debugging, analytics and problem solving.
• Experience working with rich telemetry, making data driven decisions, rapid experimentation.
• Experience building software with scale, performance, efficiency, and reliability.
• Experience working closely together on every detail of design and implementation of the product. From fast evolving new features to long-range infrastructure and architecture investments.
• Ability to work cross group and across disciplines.
• Academic or Industry experience with building, systems with LLM models (any category).
• Grounded in growth mindset, and advocate for inclusion.
• Customer obsessed and passionate about product impact.

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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $114,400 - CAD $203,900 per year.

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Software Engineering IC4 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 114,400 $ CAD à 203,900 $ CAD par année.

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Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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