Do you have a passion for quality and engineering excellence? Are you looking for a job that combines the latest software and hardware trends with sophisticated back-end services and cloud computing? Do you love understanding how AI hardware, OS platforms and OS features come together to deliver delightful experiences while continuing to maintain/improve perf/power/reliability? Do you want to have a real impact on the experience of millions of customers? If your answers are Yes, this is the position for YOU.
Come build community, explore your passions and do your most meaningful work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential and excitement for the journey ahead.
The Windows Fundamentals Platform Health team is looking for a talented Software Engineer II who can help us make Windows more efficient, leaner, and more responsive. Our team is responsible for building an efficient and reliable scoring and gating system for performance and power scenarios. Our service produces data used by the entire Windows organization to make critical code-flow decisions and empowers internal teams to detect, debug, and fix performance and power regressions. We are in the unique position of being able to work on the latest Windows code, test on the newer devices and write Azure services daily. We want to hire a talented engineer with a passion for quality that can help us expand our coverage, scale our service and improve customer satisfaction.
The Windows Fundamentals Team works on the full stack across hardware partners, OS, Shell, applications, and ecosystem to protect, improve and manage battery life, performance and reliability every release across Windows and Devices. We apply diverse skills—from collaborating with partner teams to leveraging trace analysis, telemetry pipelines, and AI-driven data insights. Our work is data-driven with a sharp focus towards achieving excellence.
The set of tools/technologies we use to achieve our objectives include C, C++, C#, scripting, Web development code, SQL and Kusto database languages, trace processing applications in Azure, machine learning models, Power BI, statistics, Windows Performance Analyzer, ETW tracing, low-level silicon and OS tools and power instrumented hardware.
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