Software Engineer II

Teams is the fabric of how we communicate and collaborate, bringing together your chats, meetings, apps, files and much more. Whether you use it for work, school, or life, over 300M people rely on Teams every day to stay productive and connected with colleagues, partners customers, friends, and family. Our users expect Teams to have great fundamentals – to be fast, resource efficient and reliable, and the new Teams app is re-architected and optimized from the ground up to deliver on that promise. Our journey is just getting started with the new era of Teams.

We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join the Teams fundamentals organization and help drive multiple initiatives to make Teams best in class at reliability and resiliency. This includes innovating on how we intelligently use telemetry to measure reliability for our different audiences, how we use customer feedback, how we create diagnostics and analytics at scale to enable faster detection and debugging, how we collaborate with other teams to achieve end-end engineering excellence, and how we build resilient architectures.

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 collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand and implement user requirements. 

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 
• Experience with Microsoft Teams or similar collaboration platforms is highly desirable. 
• Excellent communication skills and ability to effectively articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 
• Problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze and debug complex systems. 

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 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.

• Identify dependencies and contribute to the development of design documents for improving Teams' reliability with minimal supervision.
• Develop and implement code for enhancing reliability features, leveraging existing code where applicable.
• Participate in breaking down larger work items into smaller tasks and provide accurate estimations for implementation timelines.
• Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) on-call to proactively monitor Teams for potential issues, gaining approval to restore services for simple problems.
• Stay up-to-date with industry developments to improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of Teams, while promoting consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
• Embody our Culture and Values