Software Engineer II

Do you want to be part of Microsoft’s mission to “Empower every person and organization to achieve more” that inspires us, drives our work, and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day at Microsoft? Our culture is centered around embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

Are you excited about working on Microsoft 365 (M365) - Microsoft's flagship productivity suite with the opportunity to build planet scale platform and services? M365 provides highly distributed, massively scaled, highly reliable and compliant services for millions of users. We are actively looking for a software developer to own components critical to Copilot Extensibility which has direct impact on our topline and solve critical problems for customers in their productivity and knowledge management. We own integrations with several 3P data sources allowing customer content to participate in several key experiences like Copilot, Search, Content discovery, Information protection and several other AI-ML backed experiences. This allows us to take goodness of Microsoft 365 platform to 3P data to stay on the forefront of Enterprise productivity. Different parts of the platform present different set of problems from high scale, distributed systems to components which work under resource constraints and need to be highly performant.

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.
• Experience developing and shipping features in large scale distributed systems.  

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 Qualfications:

• Able to write high quality code.  
• Strong at Problem Solving and Analytical skills. 
• Able to work/collaborate with teams across geos and functions. 
• Self-driven, Results oriented and be accountable for your work.   
• Proven ability to establish trusted, effective relationships across diverse sets of stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills and cross group collaboration.
• Ability to quickly pick up existing concepts and employ new techniques and strong problem solving.

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.

#M365CORE

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.