We are looking for a self-driven software engineer who loves technical challenges and fully embraces the cultural values of inclusion & belonging.  The kind of engineer we want to hire stands up for quality in all aspects of their role and empowers those around them to be their best.  This is a great fit for someone excited about improving our experimentation and data engineering technologies, as well as the challenges and growth opportunity around backend engineering to deliver experiences that improve our video processing pipeline.  Help us realize our vision and deliver unparalleled quality and innovation to our customers. 

About the Team  

Everyone in OMG plays an active role in defining and living our three team cultural values along with supporting a work environment that puts remote experiences first:   

• Be friendly, helpful, and collaborative -- Seeking out different perspectives, taking the time to help others, celebrating successes, and learning from failures ensure each team member grows and excels.   
• Ship a quality product with features that customers love -- Deep customer understanding fuels every step of our planning and ensures we imagine, build, and ship products that meet the needs of and delight our customers.   
• Seek to improve how we work -- We strive to give and receive feedback in an open and respectful way and to be rigorous in improving our processes to create a happy and productive work environment.   

Learn more about Stream here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/stream/streamnew/new-stream. 

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Responsibilities

You will collaborate with talented engineers, program managers, designers, and data scientists to deliver new features to Microsoft Stream in collaboration. You will partner with teams across Microsoft to incorporate cutting edge machine learning and AI technologies. You will be data driven in setting goals and measuring success while moving toward a clear focus on what’s best for the customer. You will deliver continuous innovation through safe roll-out practices and adhere to compliance requirements to maintain the Microsoft brand of trust. Some other responsibilities include: 

• Design, implement and deploy machine learning models and microservices to improve the cost and effectiveness of our video processing pipeline 
• Evolve our scalable and high-performance experimentation framework for Stream 
• Improve our data pipeline for Stream’s rollout and experimentation needs 

• Collaborate with the data science team to understand product insights and generate feature scorecards  
• Continue to enable our data driven culture and enable safe roll-out practices with impactful experimentations 
• Excellent communication skills, ability to do presentations and strong team work ethics 

Qualifications

Required 

• 2+ years of object-oriented programming experience (C++, C#, Python, Java, TypeScript or equivalent) 
• 1+ years of experience building and running cloud services at scale 
• Excellent problem solving and debugging skills  
• Passion for understanding and solving data driven problems 

Preferred 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent experience 
• Ability to quickly ramp up, understand complex problems, and create solutions across many products.  
• Experience working on software flighting systems 
• Experience with scripting and query languages such as Powershell, SQL and Kusto queries 
• Experience with image or video processing and streaming technologies 
• Experience with developing data pipelines 
• Growth mindset with a desire to learn, persist through challenges, and embrace failure as an opportunity to evolve. 

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. 

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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.