Software Engineer II

More than ever before, cloud services are transforming the way the world does business. As you have probably heard, Microsoft is committed to being cloud-first, and with several multi-billion-dollar services already serving the needs of individuals and organizations all over the globe, the opportunity to shape the future has never been greater! 

Microsoft’s Enterprise cloud services are some of the most rapidly growing and strategically important segments in our company.  The Office 365 Enterprise Cloud team runs a mission-critical cloud service for many of the largest organizations in the world, including many of the Fortune 500 companies as well as federal, state, and local government organizations. We provide a distributed, scalable, highly reliable service for millions of people. As you might expect, customers of this nature have the highest expectations around enterprise features, regulatory compliance, reliability, and availability and of course about the security of our service! 

We are looking for a Software Engineer II to help design and implement scenarios for our customers. You would receive significant mentoring and coaching as you help prioritize and unblock work for our big government sovereign environments. 

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 technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with system design.
• Knowledge of data structures .  

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:

• Experience with building cloud-scale infrastructure components. 
• Awareness & passion related to cloud scale monitoring and big-data analysis. 
• Proven track record of delivering projects that include multiple components  
• Ability and eagerness to work across and partner with multiple engineering teams to achieve business goals 
• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, prior experience working on C# and PowerShell.
• Solid debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills  
• Solid written and verbal communication skills.   
• Ability to work cross team and collaborate with others. 

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.

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• Design, develop, test and support features, experiences and solutions for highly scalable services. 
• Develop high quality secure and compliant solutions 
• Support highly available services used by millions of users on a daily basis.    
• Analyze how your features are performing in production to learn and make the product better.    
• Pair and participate in code reviews with other engineers in your team.   
• Collaborate with partner teams to meet the engineering goals in a unified manner. 
• Contribute to significantly improving the security rigor of our system to be best-in-world.