Software Engineer II at Microsoft
On-site · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · full time
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Skills the interview covers
- C
- C++
- C#
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- security best practices
- live-site service management
About the role
Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable with minimal supervision. Reviews product feature code and test code to ensure it meets team standards, contains the correct test coverage, and is appropriate for the product feature. Understands and provides feedback for proposals for architecture, with technical leadership from others. With minimal supervision, tests and explores various design options for a product/solution feature, outlining strengths and weaknesses of each option. Creates a clear test strategy that ensures solution quality, prevents regression from being introduced into existing code with minimal supervision. Executes test plans that incorporate security testing to validate security invariants (including negative cases) with minimal supervision. Understands and applies security best practices. Maintains operations of live site service, following security best practices when responding quickly to mitigate issues while using the minimum required permissions to do so that arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Works with appropriate internal stakeholders (e.g., product manager, privacy/security subject matter expert, technical lead) to understand and determine customer/user requirements for a set of features. Mentor engineers and share knowledge and experience.