Software Engineering Internship Opportunities at Microsoft

Job Description

Microsoft Corporation (commonly referred to as Microsoft or MS) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operatin…

Software Engineering Internship Opportunities

Qualifications

Required qualifications

• Be enrolled in a bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, computer science or related field.
• Must have at least one additional quarter/semester of school remaining following the completion of the student worker program.
• Fluency in English.
• You must be legally authorised to work in Kenya to be eligible for this role. (Legally authorised = has citizenship or has been granted a valid visa or work permit)

Preferred qualifications:

• Be passionate about quality, performance, and reliability.
• Experience and interest in working with backend containerized microservices (ex: Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Have solid problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge, experience with one or more general purpose programming languages such as C#, Python.
• Good interpersonal oral and written communications skills
• Experience delivering results through collaboration across disciplines, feature teams, and partners

Responsibilities

• Applies engineering principles to solve complex problems through sound and creative engineering.
• Quickly learns new engineering methods and incorporates them into work processes.
• Seeks feedback and applies internal or industry best practices to improve technical solutions.
• Demonstrates skill in time management and completing software projects in a cooperative team environment.