Software Engineer II

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world.

Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture.

Within Azure Data, the business intelligence team builds and maintains Power BI which is the undisputed leader in BI tool in the industry today and serves as the bridge between data professionals & Office users. Power BI’s core value proposition is to enable end users to get answers & insights from their data through data visualization.

The Power BI data onboarding team’s mission is to simplify the process of building and reporting off a data model, empowering users regardless of their analytic background. We’re focused on providing a seamless and delightful user experience across both the powerbi.com SaaS application and the Power BI Desktop Windows application.

We are looking for a Software Engineer II to drive valuable efforts accelerating engineering productivity across the team. Work will focus on continuous optimization of process, tooling, and infrastructure. Rapid improvement in an agile environment is in the heart of our culture, and it gets faster and better every day. In this climate, maintaining a modern, reliable, and performant engineering infrastructure is key to our success. This engineering role is incredibly meaningful - offering direct interaction with developer-customers providing rapid, actionable feedback resulting in great visibility into the improvements you add.

You will work with smart, passionate colleagues who care deeply about our culture, and support one another in a super fun environment. You will have ample opportunity to learn and grow. Best of all - your work will impact millions of people, and you can be proud to see customers benefit from the work you do.

We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served.

Relocation assistance is unavailable for this role.

Required/Minimum 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, Python, or PowerShell
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year experience with and has contributed to a build system that leverages CI / CD and automated testing.
• 1+ year experience with Dev Ops tools (preferably Azure DevOps).

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/Additional Qualifications:

• 1+ years demonstrated experience in designing and developing large scale distributed systems and services.
• Experience with MSBuild and .NET Framework applications.
• Infrastructure experience – Cloud + On Prem, VMs, Credential & Resource Management, Security. 
• Solid technical aptitude and a passion for quality, competent debugging skills, experience designing and implementing automated tooling\processes.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $127,200 - $208,800 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay    

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until June 25, 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.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. 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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As a Software Engineer II you will:

• Collaborate with and influence a distributed team of developers to maintain a complex distributed, highly available engineering infrastructure.
• Architect, design and develop build/release pipelines, optimizing for resource, reliability and performance.
• Proactively drive security and compliance effort, ensuring all systems are continuously healthy and well-guarded.
• Drive discussions with engineers around the org to understand challenges, opportunities, converting ambiguous requirements into actionable execution plans.
• Research and assess existing/new technologies and determine their applicability to solving real technical challenges.
• Demonstrate proficient communication skills, including the ability to write concise and accurate technical documentation, communicate technical ideas to diverse audiences, recognize patterns, and to lead development teams.
• Embody our culture and values