Are you fascinated with finding new ways for millions of users to connect, communicate and live their lives? Are you interested in helping every person on the planet to achieve more? Are you obsessed with creating products that are simple, useful, and delightful? So are we. Outlook empowers people through communication and collaboration. Hundreds of millions use Outlook daily – we are on a mission to make it a billion. This mission takes us to meet our customers where they are: on all platforms (Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Web) and through all service providers (Office 365, Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) . We are looking for a skilled engineer with passion for the communications space. On the Outlook Desktop team, we are making broad investments in the product to win end-user love. From enhancing the most-used Office product, Outlook, transforming it into the best service-based client experience available to creating all new experiences, we will be the engine that powers how humans interact with each
Key Responsibilities: Define the technical roadmap for the aforementioned communications infrastructure. Participate in planning to discover where investments need to be made and to understand the customer Brainstorm solutions Investigate possible design directions and new technologies Develop an engineering plan including core design, unit test, and relevant telemetry Implement the solution Validate, stabilize, and check in the feature Monitor telemetry to continue to flight and validate the feature in various audiences (Team, Division, Microsoft, Insiders, Production) Help diagnose service health
Qualifications: Strong engineering fundamentals with a desire to learn more A drive for technical excellence and quality Strong customer focus with a passion for delivering delightful experiences Excellent team-oriented collaboration skills Track record and strong results driving large group-wide deliverables Experience owning and developing features end-to-end 5+ yrs of relevant experience in the high-tech industry Experience writing object-oriented code in native-code C++. Strong debugging skills. Experience with post-mortem debugging is a plus. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent