Overview

Are you passionate about solving complex problems and building products that make a real impact Do you thrive in a collaborative environment surrounded by exceptional engineers The Microsoft Clarity Apps team is seeking a talented Software Engineer II to help design, optimize, and maintain the Clarity SDKs for native mobile applicationsempowering our customers to understand user behavior and achieve their business goals.

As a Software Engineer, you will contribute to the design and development of cross-cutting features across all Clarity SDKsincluding Android, iOS, Flutter, React Native, and moreguided by customer feedback and real-world insights. Our goal is to deliver the most performant SDKs in the industry, which will challenge you to apply advanced profiling, optimization, and innovative problem-solving techniques. You'll also play a customer-facing role, collaborating directly with users to understand their needs, gather feedback, and ensure their issues and pain points are addressed effectively. A key part of this role involves working on the core of our SDKsthe visual capture engine that powers session replaywhich demands solid investigative and reverse-engineering skills to adapt to evolving OS-level changes while continuously enhancing performance and stability.

We're looking for an engineer who thrives in dynamic environments, embraces technical challenges, and shows flexibility as our SDK portfolio and team charter evolve. This position offers a unique opportunity to accelerate your career growth, sharpen your analytical thinking, and strengthen your foundational software engineering skills.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

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Responsibilities

Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND clearly demonstratable technical engineering experience with coding in languages (including, but not limited to) C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND a particularly strong proficiency in coding in languages (including, but not limited to) C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND expert-level technical engineering experience with coding in languages (including, but not limited to) C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
OR equivalent experience.

Experience with mobile apps and SDKs development.
Experience with reverse engineering, preferably in mobile applications or operating systems.

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. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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