Software Engineer II

Do you love the engineering challenges of designing and delivering cutting-edge cloud-scale distributed systems technologies? Do you want to enable cloud and container based applications that are fault-tolerant, self-managing, self-healing and easily operated at massive scale on public or private datacenters around the world? Do you want to be part of a fast paced and energetic team that’s building the next generation of serverless container infrastructure for Azure?

Azure Service Fabric, within Azure Core, is a highly decentralized runtime that abstracts and solves some of the hardest distributed systems problems, like failure detection, leader election, and replicated state machines and provides a managed experience that simplifies infrastructure management enabling critical first and third-party services, including Azure Control Plane, SQL DB, Cosmos DB to build hyper-scale, reliable, and available systems. We are looking for a Software Engineer II to help deliver the innovations that will power the next set of Azure AI and Data services. Our team supports working from home partially or fully. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

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.

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.

Additional / Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience with technical design, problem solving, and debugging skills.
• Experience in driving scale and performance for E2E scenarios.
• Experience in building distributed systems and driving their performance.
• Experience in working with web services.
• Experience in multi-threaded, asynchronous, and systems programming.
• Effective interpersonal skills.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 - $182,600 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 $120,900 - $198,600 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 May 5, 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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• Write high quality, maintainable, reusable code following SOLID principles with test automation.
• You will collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• You will contribute to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• You will create and implement code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• You will contribute to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provide estimation.
• You will act 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.

Other:

• Embody our Culture and Values