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Software Development Engineer, Senior-Windows Entertainment Client Team (729104) Job

Company NameMicrosoft
Number of vacancies1
Recruiters Reference891813
IndustryEngineer
LocationWashington (WA)
Job Status
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Job description & RequirementsJob Category: Software Engineering: Development
Location: United States, WA, Redmond
Job ID: 729104 23394
Division: Entertainment & Devices Division

We are the Windows Entertainment Client team and are chartered to revolutionize the way that people consume the Video, Music and TV content on their PC. Working closely with Xbox, Windows Phone, and Zune.net http://Zune.net>, we will light up the premium PC entertainment experience. Together we will build rich, immersive, social, and cloud-connected video and music experiences that will delight our users by giving them access to the entertainment they want, anywhere they want it to be.

By pursuing a career within our team, you have the opportunity to create delightful, differentiated and consistent iconic entertainment experiences across 3 screens. If you want to contribute to our vision with your creativity and passion for the future of entertainment, we may have your next job opportunity just waiting for you!

The WEC Platform team is building a next generation data and metadata storage platform to provide backbone to our application. We are going to a build reliable, resilient, and performant scalable data store and data access layer. Amazingly rich and fast user experience as well as data driven features are not possible without this solid data tier and this position presents a unique opportunity to build this backbone. We are seeking to hire a passionate developer who has strong technical skills, is customer focused, who is a great team player attitude, has the ability to quickly ramp up on new technologies and consistently drives for results.

Primary Responsibilities
Provide strong technical leadership in building the data store, data access layer and object layer that has extensibility, testability and maintainability.
Design, develop and timely deliver high quality platform code.
Partner with PM and test teams as well as relevant Microsoft groups to deliver solutions from concept to delivery.
Contribute to feature, design, and code reviews.
Provide mentoring to junior members of the team.

Required Skills and Experience
7 years of experience designing & developing robust, extensible and testable platform code.
Passion for engineering excellence and quality in code & design.
Native C++ coding and debugging.
SQL CE experience, knowledge of SQL, experience with ISAM access.
Database fundamentals and tuning.
Performance tuning - ideally on a product that used a database.
Excellent customer focus along with solid communication & cross-group skills.
A BS or MS degree in CS/CE or EE.

Pluses:
Experience with Entity Frameworks.
Experience with C# and .NET.
Expert level knowledge in design patterns.
Experience with Test Driven Development.

SC:MN
Nearest Major Market: Seattle
Nearest Secondary Market: Bellevue
Job Category: Engineering, Software Engineer, Engineer, Test Engineer, Technology, C#, SQL, User Experience, Cloud, .NET, Testing, Database, Developer, Quality Assurance
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Date posted30/07/2010
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