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Windows Cloud Experiences (WCX) is developing a best-in-class virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution to enable millions of customers to work with physical and virtual PCs. WCX is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for the Windows 365 and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) organization, which is recognized as a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for Desktop as a Service (DaaS) for last 3 years. With the momentum from customers transitioning to cloud-based solutions, Windows 365 and AVD have become a billion-dollar business and continue to experience rapid growth. At its core, W365 and AVD provide customers with a modern, elastic, cloud-based Windows experience that feels like local. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who’s excited to explore new technologies, write elegant and robust code, and drive engineering excellence across the stack to join the team that builds key technologies for our data platform infrastructure. In this role, you’ll contribute to rapid, iterative releases and have the opportunity to innovate across multiple areas of our product, from infrastructure to data engineering and operations.
Job Responsibility:
Architect scalable, low-latency systems/data pipelines for ingesting, processing, and serving personalized signals
Design, build, and maintain robust pipelines for telemetry, product usage, and experimentation data
Own orchestration, monitoring, and DevOps for critical data workflows
Design data models and APIs that enable Copilot to reason about user context, preferences, and history
Build real-time and batch personalization engines that adapt Copilot’s behavior
Collaborate with privacy, security, and responsible AI teams to ensure personalization is safe, transparent, and user-controlled
Optimize for performance, reliability, and cost across diverse workloads and geographies
Ship high-quality, well-tested, secure, and maintainable code
Find a path to get things done despite roadblocks to get your work into the hands of users quickly and iteratively
Enjoy working in a fast-paced, design-driven, product development cycle
Embody our Culture and Values
Requirements:
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
Excellent technical design skills and proven ability to drive large scale system designs for commercial projects or products
Experience and involvement with DevOps
Fluent English communication skill
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
Nice to have:
5+ years of software engineering experience building scalable services and infrastructure on top of cloud infrastructure like Azure, AWS, or GCP
Experience with large scale data systems
Ambitious, self-motivated
Agile, can-do attitude and great at dealing with ambiguity
Strong coding, debugging and problem-solving skills
Strong knowledge of object-oriented programming language paradigms
Keen interest in mentoring early in career engineers
Ability to generate clarity in ambiguous situations
Ability to quickly ramp up, understand complex problems, and create solutions across many products
Great communication skills to collaborate cross-group and work effectively within the team
Expertise in developing large scale services
Experience monitoring system performance, diagnosing and resolving issues, and implementing improvements to ensure reliability and a seamless user experience