Software Engineer II

The Azure Edge + Platform Engineering System designs, builds, and operates the largest scale engineering system in the industry. We are building large scale systems by leveraging our experience and knowledge in distributed systems and hybrid cloud computing. Our services support the secure development and release of some of the most widely used products in the world!

The Dependency Management and Secure Solutions team is responsible for iterative security improvements building upon defense in depth in our Windows and Linux engineering systems. Some of the areas include evolving the Windows build infrastructure code and services, ensuring open source is leveraged responsibly throughout these systems, building out recovery workflows for potential critical Azure outage scenarios, and maintaining Linux-based containers used for Azure infrastructure agent development.

We are a diverse, agile team focused on delivering quality cloud based, scalable solutions in a thoughtful, flexible, and secure way. As a Software Engineer II on this team, you’ll work on the largest scale engineering system in Microsoft, learn in a fast paced, live-site focused environment, and deliver customer value with everything we do. The job provides an opportunity to:

• Impact one of the largest engineering systems in the world that is critical to producing one of the most widely used operating systems in the world which is also foundational to Azure and millions of people worldwide
• Work in a world class engineering team of engineers, architects, and leadership that will help you grow your career
• Be part of a dynamic community that will enable you to learn, collaborate, and contribute with the top minds in the industry

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.

• 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 experience with cloud infrastructure. (Azure or AWS)

Other Qualifications:

Cloud Background Check

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check:
  • This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience developing and managing services in a development, operations, and site reliability engineering role.
• 4+ years of hands-on use of telemetry systems and querying languages (Azure or AWS Data Lake, Azure Data Explorer, Apache Spark, or Splunk) to understand customer usage patterns, as well as to diagnose and drive improvements to production services.
• Dedicated to diversity and inclusion initiatives.
• Ability to both lead and collaborate within and across teams effectively.
• Experience creating, developing, delivering, deploying, and maintaining services, especially architectures at scale.

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 December 9, 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.

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• Design, implement, and validate solutions and services with a specific focus on reliability, performance, efficiency, latency, security, and scalability of infrastructure, ensuring high quality and compliance standards
• Design, develop, and maintain telemetry pipelines and monitoring tools that detail operations metrics for both the infrastructure and the services for critical development and release scenarios
• Collaborate effectively in a team atmosphere
• Participate in complete software development lifecycle, providing and receiving constructive feedback to improve overall quality
• Conduct periodic on call duties and live site support
• Use data to develop insights and guide business decisions

Other

• Embody our culture and values