We’re looking for a **Senior Software Engineer** to join our team in Egypt. You will have the opportunity to work with the latest cloud and machine learning technologies, in-house or open-source, and make direct impacts to the products, features and platforms used by billions of people daily.     You will be part of a passionate and supportive team, building highly performant and scalable distributed services.    The teams we are hiring into: WebXT Platform Team – delivering cutting-edge infrastructure for Microsoft search and feeds experience.  Join us in building the next generation core serving foundation for fast growing demands of search and feeds. You will be hands-on in one of the world’s largest distributed systems in production.    WebXT Feed & Verticals/Shopping  - providing relevant and highly personalized and contextual information around various pivots such as news, sports, shopping, weather, and finance to users wherever they are. You will do this by building systems that scale massively and leverage latest advances to power discovery, distribution, intelligence, and insights from content. We are growing rapidly and heavily investing across the board to build core capabilities across the stack to scale out to billion+ users and devices and in doing so build tech that has never been done before.   If you enjoy working in an agile, fast-paced environment with multiple functions, customers, and partners, and solving complex problems, we encourage you to apply.   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. **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.   **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications:** + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience. **Other Requirements:** Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that 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. **Additional or Preferred Qualifications:** + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python + OR equivalent experience. + 6+ years experience in building and maintaining reliable and scalable services/platforms . + Experience in production scale distributed systems. \#Hiring #Microsoft #EDC #Job #SoftwareEngineer #Cloud Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .