Software Engineer II

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the development of a rapidly growing commercial platform. As part of our team, you will be responsible for delivering world-class experiences to our customers and partners. This role offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment, providing an excellent opportunity to work on highly strategic and industry-relevant projects. If you excel at solving complex problems, writing high-quality code, and are passionate about building and operating robust, reliable, and highly distributed software systems using the latest technologies, we would like to hear from you. This position offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with highly talented engineers, operating in a startup-like environment to tackle our next set of significant challenges. You will be joining the project at its inception, allowing your ideas to shape its future direction. You will be empowered to envision, design, code, validate, and deploy key features with substantial customer impact. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to work with various teams across the company, providing broad exposure and a diverse technical experience. There are numerous opportunities to make a significant impact and grow rapidly within our expanding organization. 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

• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine user requirements for various scenarios.
• Drive the identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms.
• Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to enhance performance, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partner with stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive project plans, release plans, and work items for the workgroup.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor systems/products/services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status, and initiating actions to restore systems/products/services for both simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
• Lead by example, engage in discussions on the architecture of products or solutions, and apply engineering principles to establish robust and maintainable architecture and designs.
• Overcome roadblocks to deliver work to users quickly and iteratively. - Drive, coach, and mentor others through design reviews, code reviews, and test case reviews.
• Design, develop, and operationalize the deployment of complex, enterprise-grade cloud services that leverage multiple services and platforms, ensuring high availability, scalability, robustness, and observability.
• Be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of these services, ensuring their scalability, reliability, and security.
• Drive improvements for systems and engineering processes with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets.
• Deliver value through a collaborative approach spanning multiple teams across geographies.
• Be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem-solving.
• Support and influence the team culture towards customer-centricity and continuous improvement.
• Implement practices that ensure accurate, safe, and efficient releases for our services.
• Embody our culture and values.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 4+ years of engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience).3+ years of software engineering experience, including coding, debugging, problem solving, and a solid foundation in data structures and algorithms.2+ years of experience designing and implementing large-scale cloud services.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, along with 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python; OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, along with 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python; OR equivalent experience.
• Industry experience with cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, Google).
• Experience with distributed systems, micro-service architecture, scalability patterns, and high-availability architectures.
• Experience with Pub/Sub systems and streaming ingestion systems.
• Proven experience in driving large strategic and complex or ambiguous projects that span organizations.
• Proficient in problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to debugging and performance optimization.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to lead technical discussions.
• Passion for customer-focused innovation.
• Experience in deploying, monitoring, and operating services in the cloud.
• Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting, and organizational skills.
• Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes.
• Familiarity with modern engineering practices such as CI/CD and version control systems like Git.
• 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.
• The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay. 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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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. Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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.