Software Engineer II

Are you interested in working for one of the most exciting fast-growing teams in Microsoft? Then look at the Microsoft Defender Platform Engineering team. You will be building cloud solutions meeting scales that few companies in industry are required to support, that leverage state-of-the-art technologies to deliver holistic protection to a user base of 10’s of thousands of States level organizations, enterprises, and businesses around the globe. The Microsoft Defender Platform Engineering team is responsible for delivering a constantly evolving set of services and solutions to meet the challenging landscape of our ever-evolving attackers.

• 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.
• Proven experience with 3+ years working on Kubernetes.
• Proven experience with 5+ years of Linux hands on system experience.

Qualifications: Other Requirements –

• Significant hands-on experience in of one or more of the following programming languages: C#, Python, Go(or other equivalent) including Object-Oriented programming concepts.
• Mastering CI/CD concepts and hands on implementations experiences, specifically GIT.
• Proven experience with 5+ years as a Platform Engineer.
• Proven experience with building services, supportability, and monitoring Infrastructures.
• Ability to manage and deliver multiple project phases at the same time.
• Strong analytical and problem solving and organizational skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills 
• Ability to deal with the ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and changing environment.
• Leadership skills: Sound problem resolution, judgment, negotiating and decision-making skills

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.

• The Platform Engineering team provides leadership, direction and accountability for application architecture, Cloud design, Infrastructures development and end to end implementation.
• You will independently determine and develop architectural approaches and Infrastructure solutions and operate our production services.
• Strong collaboration skills will be required to work closely with other engineering teams to ensure services/systems are highly stable and performant and meet the expectations of internal and external customers and users.