Software Engineer

We are the Shell team in the Windows Servicing and Delivery (WSD) organization. The delivery of new innovations and updates to our customers is at the core of WSD’s mission to keep Microsoft customers protected and productive.  

WSD Shell team orchestrates the release of exciting new features and guards the quality of the user experience in existing and future versions of Windows to our consumer, enterprise and Microsoft Cloud customers. 

As a Software Engineer in WSD Shell team, you’ll closely work with product teams and other engineers to bring new features to Windows products.  This opportunity will allow you to develop deep business acumen, hone your technical skills and accelerate your career growth. 

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. 

• Works with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical lead) to determine user requirements for a set of features. Incorporates appropriate continuous feedback loops measuring customer value, usage patterns, and other actionable metrics of value.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight. Helps to identify other teams and technologies that will be leveraged, how they will interact, and when one's system may provide support to others. Contributes to determining back-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.
• Identifies areas for efforts to 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 in subsequent designs. Helps to create outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards.