FULL_TIME
2-5
System Software Engineer - WSD
11/25/2025
You will design and implement new features to support customer requirements and improve the quality and reliability of the update stack client code. You will collaborate with teams across WSD and Windows to build features that enable efficient updates and address security vulnerabilities.
Working Hours
40 hours/week
Company Size
10,001+ employees
Language
English
Visa Sponsorship
No
About The Company
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters.
Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
About the Role
You will be designing and implementing new features to support customer requirements as well as continuously improving the quality and reliability of the update stack client code responsible for discovery, installation and lifecycle of updates to the operating system. You will work with other teams across WSD and Windows to design and build features that enable the most efficient and seamless way to update their components to bring to market the latest in innovation including ML/AI models, Applications, and security updates. As we look toward a new future with Agentic AI and AI Orchestration, we will be looking for you to bring new thinking and ideas as we move forward. You will design, test and develop these features based on internal and external customer requirements leveraging a fast-paced quarterly planning cycle. Lots of opportunity to have organizational impact by collaborating, innovating and building the next set of internal processes and tools to support fast yet reliable shipping of new code to our validation rings and retail customers. You will address security vulnerabilities and at the same time build resilient architecture for your components in today's ever increasing security focused landscape.Monitor monthly retail releases to Windows and diagnose/mitigate/resolve issues expeditiously when they happen. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR equivalent experience. Experience with technical abilities around design, coding, rapid prototyping, debugging, and problem solving. Recent exposure and implementation of products and services leveraging the latest generative AI models and agents. Previous experience with verbal, written and cross group collaboration and communication .Operating System fundamentals background, deployment technology.Experience in coding, debugging, and problem-solving skills. Demonstrated focus for meeting customer needs. Contributing to team culture. Track record of learning and growing.
Key Skills
CC++C#JavaJavaScriptPythonDesignCodingRapid PrototypingDebuggingProblem SolvingGenerative AICollaborationCommunicationOperating System FundamentalsDeployment Technology
Categories
TechnologyEngineeringSoftware
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