Senior Software Engineer

Job Description

Own the reliability and performance of acquisition, install, and update flows, including production troubleshooting, incident response, service health monitoring, and a healthy on-call rotation. Set technical direction within your areas, including modernization of legacy code paths, platform and architecture transitions, and patterns that balance reliability, performance, maintainability, and cost. Partner with developers and partner engineering teams to investigate app-specific issues, distinguish intended product behavior from defects, and drive fixes to the right owner. Ensure engineering quality, craftsmanship, security, privacy, and compliance through effective test strategy, code health, regression prevention, automation, and instrumentation. Mentor engineers, raise the bar through code and design review, and bring clarity and momentum to ambiguous problems through resolution. 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. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, or Python. OR equivalent experience. Experience with Windows client development, including the app packaging, deployment, and app model stack. Experience shipping and operating a consumer-scale client application, including live-site ownership, on-call, and telemetry-driven quality improvement. Solid proficiency in C++ or C# within a large, long-lived production codebase. Experience with app distribution or commerce systems, such as catalog, licensing, entitlement, or update services. Experience debugging complex problems across process, service, and operating system boundaries using logs, traces, and diagnostics tooling. Experience mentoring engineers or leading a workstream without formal management responsibility.