Software Engineer II - Testbase at Microsoft Nigeria

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. 

At Microsoft our mission and values are to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Software Engineer II - Testbase

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job number: 1218935
Travel: 0-25 %
Profession: Engineering
Role type: Individual Contributor
Employment type: Full-Time

Job Description

• Our team, a part of the Windows and Devices organization focuses on protocol engineering, privacy engineering, tools and platform development, which are critical to Microsoft's business.
• Are you interested in learning more about Windows internals, and the protocols that work behind the scenes to make everyday tasks and computer operations happen? Come join our team. We are an energetic and innovative team.
• Our daily work would equip you with in-depth knowledge on protocol and networking parsing, leverage Azure technologies and web front-end technologies to build services, at the same time you are encouraged to use new technologies like Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing to solve real business challenges.   
• We leverage in-depth Windows protocols knowledge and networking parsing knowledge to build protocol test suites and network parsers detailed to each bit, and host/support world-wide interoperability events in US and Europe with 100+ industry partner companies’ participation yearly, which is critical to help Microsoft meet and exceed compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build tools and platforms to support protocol engineering, which are open sourced on GitHub;
• Respond to open source community on GitHub
• Represent Microsoft to attend Worldwide Interoperability Plugfest events
• Implement server/client protocol behavior to guarantee Windows Protocol document quality and validate windows interoperability for new windows releases or updates to ensure Microsoft’s antitrust compliance commitment.
• Develop other compliance related tools / Azure services utilizing latest technologies like AI and Machine Learning

Requirements
Required / Minimum Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience designing, building and shipping applications and software at scale.
• Experience with programming in any Object-Oriented programming languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript / TypeScript.
• Strong problem solving, analysis, collaboration and communication skills.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Experience with scripting Languages like Python/PowerShell
• Experience with Machine Learning and Natural Language processing would be an advantage.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.