Software Engineer II

Microsoft’s Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) team builds and operates Microsoft datacenters, which in turn power Microsoft’s cloud business. We anticipate and provide capacity for continuous scale, enabling ~30% of Microsoft revenue through Commercial Cloud .The CO+I Engineering team (CO+IE) delivers services, applications, and automation supporting datacenter planning, construction, and operation. We own a large portfolio of services, including workflows that enable predicable, lowest cost datacenter construction, telemetry systems that drive high availability and optimized energy usage, and task and performance management applications that help our operation run as efficiently as possible. Cloud Operations + Innovation Engineering is a competitive advantage for Microsoft, and an important pillar in its cloud success.

Within the Cloud Operations & Innovation organization, we are the Inventory and Asset Management Engineering team that builds and operates Microsoft datacenters. We own inventory systems that track inventory within the datacenters, our data and services contribute a great portion of enabling Microsoft datacenters to run smoothly. In 2023 the team is starting to extend our dataset and services to different granularities and enable more opportunities to optimize the infrastructure, processes, and business workflows. We need your help to deal with the ambiguities and design & implement the systems.

Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to our customers and partners worldwide. Our solutions orchestrate and coordinate with systems and processes across many teams in Microsoft – creating and driving clean APIs across them. We acknowledge that the world will never be perfect, so our systems deal with it. We are looking for a Software Engineer II with deep technical expertise who can learn fast and contribute build systems that are dynamic, highly automated, and easy to operate. We leverage Azure components including but not limited to Azure web services, Service Fabric, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Data Lake, Queues, and Azure Functions. We have a variety of synchronous and asynchronous systems working together to support planning, execution, operations, and security at hundreds of datacenters around the world.

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.

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.

Required/ Minimum Qualification: 

• 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
  o OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of software development experience on Azure, AWS, Google Cloud or other cloud platforms.

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 Qualification: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field and 3+ 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 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.
• Experience in design and implement secure backend services in modern platforms such as ASP.NET Core on .NET and Azure, AWS, etc.
• Experience in working with SQL and No-SQL databases such as SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, Azure Cosmos, etc.
• Experience in containerization and microservices infrastructure such as Kubernetes, Service Fabric, etc.
• Experience in client side development using JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular JS, React, etc.

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 January 18th, 2025.

This role is located in one or all hub locations - Atlanta, GA, Washington, D.C., Redmond, WA, San Antonio, TX or Phoenix, AZ.

Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates must relocate or reisde within 50 miles of the hub office location.

This role is eligible for hybrid or remote work, up to 100%.

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.

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• Design, develop and operate large scale, efficient and reliable cloud systems and solutions, in areas of inventory management for datacenter operations.
• Write high quality, maintainable, and high-performance code following demonstrated development principles.
• Collaborate with project managers and business stakeholders to design and deliver new features, working closely with partner teams across the org to ensure successful launches.
• Identify opportunities and drive the implementation of monitoring, self-healing, and automation capabilities to improve service manageability and reliability.
• Participate in on-call rotations (typically 24/7 for one week every 8-10 weeks) acting as Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), monitoring production systems for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and taking appropriate actions to restore systems/products/services.
• Investigate and resolve customer-reported incidents, continually seeking ways to minimize or eliminate future incidents and improve customer experiences.
• Follow best practices and demonstrate thoughtful ownership.
• Embody Microsoft’s inspired culture and values.