Full-time opportunities for students & recent graduates: Services Engineering

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. We believe we should each find meaning in our work and we ensure employees have the freedom and the reach to help make a difference in the world.

We are looking for candidates who are:

Team Players: driving digital transformation with our customers is a team sport. We need teammates who can stay maniacally focused on our customers’ satisfaction while operating in a highly-collaborative, matrixed global organization.
Growth Mindset: your life is truly about learning-it-all. You approach every new piece of information, knowledge, and competency with insatiable curiosity. Ultimately, you’re open to the ideas of others, where the success of others does not diminish your own.

Relentlessly Resourceful: you have the drive to overcome any obstacle in your work.
Customer Obsessed: you learn about your customers and their businesses with a beginner’s mind and then bring solutions that meet their needs.
Pure Challenge: demonstrated desire and ability to readily take on complex challenges and work towards solutions to seemingly unsolvable problems.
Passion for Technology: you’re deeply motivated by the incredible opportunity of how technology can inspire and ignite change and renewal.

Applications to these opportunities are considered for all available Services Engineering roles including the ones described below, depending on education level and/or location. To be considered as a student or recent graduate, you should be within 12 months of graduation or graduated within the last 12 months.

This highly visible role will have you working closely with other disciplines including, SWE/PM, partners, business groups, and data center engineering teams. You will need an excellent combination of relevant technological knowledge, cross-group collaboration skills, communication and negotiation skills, relationship-building skills, and planning skills. You will also need a sense of urgency to get things done efficiently-working both independently and as part of a team. You understand the need for implementing and following processes across the service ecosystem.

Responsibilities

As a Service engineer you will be responsible for planning, project management, documenting processes, developing specs, and providing status updates on all release-to-web activities.
Plan, design and drive operability requirements, standards, processes, and practices.
Release and deploy: deploy and run services in production.
Operate (and optimize): ensure data delivery and customer satisfaction with an eye on improving operational practices and procedures.

Qualifications

A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science (within 12 months of graduation or graduated within the last 12 months).
Extensive programming experience in one or more of the following: C/C++, C#, Java, Python, PowerShell, Perl, Batch, HTML, Win32.
Excellent communication skills.
Ability to work independently.

Large scale systems design experience with knowledge of Unix/Linux.
Knowledge of database design and SQL, TCP/IP, and network programming is a plus.
Research experience in algorithms, architecture, database, data mining, distributed systems, machine learning, networking, or systems preferred.

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.

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