Software Engineer II

We are the Azure Communication Services Team and we are looking to hire a Software Engineer II to join our team. Azure Communication Services (ACS) is a new Communication Platform as a Service (CPaaS) offering, launched at Ignite 2020.    

We power reliable, high-quality Short Message Service (SMS), Chat, Public Switched Telephony Network (PSTN), video calling and meeting services across Microsoft products.  Our service platform is well architected, globally distributed, highly scalable and built for the Cloud.   The World continues to scale towards remote work, learn and play.  Come find your purpose with us to connect the World.  We are grounded in our mission to enable all organizations and customers to achieve more in work and life.  Our Team is growing fast and learning fast to enable the next generation of communication experiences.  We need trusted candidates like you across all walks of life and experiences. There are opportunities in different areas to help grow and mature our services and processes. We have a wide impact, social and business related. For instance, we’re empowering healthcare groups scale during this pandemic. We’re also looking for new ways to generate intelligence based on usage patterns and sentiment analysis to empower our customers to do more, more intelligently. You will be joining a great team, where diverse opinions are important and play a major role in our product and technology roadmaps, and where we care about your career. We welcome your mindset to make a great team exceptional. For more information see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/communication-services/.  

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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of software design and development experience with backend services.    

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.    
• Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks.    
• Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.    
• Analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design.    
• Commitment to building highly scalable, highly reliable services.    
• Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes.     
• Growth Mindset with a desire to learn, a tendency to embrace challenges, persist in the face of setback, see failures as essential to mastery, learn from criticism and find lessons and inspiration in the success of others.    
• Help to create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self, where all voices are heard, and where we do our best work as a result.    
• Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges.    
• A sense of personal ownership and accountability is required, together with the ability to deliver to deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations.    
• Self-motivated with a drive for reaching across teams and organizations to make progress collaboratively.    
• Enjoy solving interesting technological challenges and problems.    
• Believe that a team working well together is truly smarter than the single smartest person on that team.    
• Aspire to grow as a person, as a teammate, and as an engineer.   

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $83,600 - CAD $159,600 per year.

Find additional pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 21, 2024

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. 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.

#M365 CORE

We are looking for a Software Engineer II candidate who is passionate about designing and building high quality reliable Cloud Services.  As an engineer in our team, you’ll be working on changes to one or more services to meet the growing needs of Microsoft first party and second party solutions. In particular, for a given feature you’ll be expected to meet with stakeholders/PM to get the requirements, document the design and review within the team, implement the design, create unit tests on your changes, manage the flighting of the new feature, and implement additional monitoring and metrics as needed for the feature.  In short, you will truly own your feature from start to finish. As a leader in our team, you will be responsible for driving best practices and mentoring engineers.    

    
Key responsibilities    

• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions.    
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.    
• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.    
• Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.    
• Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.    
• Consider testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understand when code is ready to be shared and delivered.    
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with mentors and leaders in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.    
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.    

 Embody our culture and values