Senior Software Engineer

Identify product and engineering opportunities, helping define what to build through user feedback, experimentation, and technical insight. Shape technical direction within your area, balancing near-term product needs with long-term maintainability. Lead hands-on design, implementation, testing, and delivery of VS Code features, coordinating contributors and partner-team dependencies as needed. Own outcomes after release: understand adoption, investigate quality issues, and use telemetry, evaluations, and user feedback to guide improvements. Improve responsiveness and reliability through profiling, debugging, and automated testing; strengthen the tools that let the team experiment and ship confidently. Work in the open: discuss designs publicly, investigate community-reported issues, and collaborate directly with developers and extension authors. Mentor engineers and improve technical decisions through constructive design and code reviews. 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. Solid programming and application engineering skills, with the ability to become productive in a large TypeScript and Rust codebase. Experience leading technical design and hands-on delivery for complex projects involving multiple contributors, within one team or across partner teams. Sound product and engineering judgment, including the ability to turn an ambiguous user problem into a practical, maintainable solution. Solid communication and collaboration skills, including working across team boundaries and helping other engineers grow. We welcome a range of product backgrounds; these are helpful experiences, not a checklist. Previous work on developer tools, open-source projects, or AI products is not required. 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 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 equivalent experience. Experience building interactive applications, with attention to performance, accessibility, or cross-platform behavior. Experience designing APIs, extension points, or reusable components. Experience improving products through direct user feedback, telemetry, or experiments. Practical familiarity with AI coding tools and judgment about where they help, fail, or change development workflows. Experience building AI-powered features or contributing to developer tools or open-source projects.