Software Engineering II

Microsoft’s Cloud business is expanding, and the Cloud Supply Chain (CSCP) organization is responsible for enabling the infrastructure underlying this growth including AI!CSCP’s vision is to empower customers to achieve more by delivering Cloud Capacity Differentiated at Scale. Our mission is to deliver capacity for all cloud services predictably through intelligent systems driven by continuous learning and a world class organization. The CSCP Organization is responsible for traditional supply chain functions such as Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, but also manages supportability (spares), decommissioning and disposition of Data center assets worldwide.  We deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's over 200 online businesses including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, OneDrive and the Microsoft Azure platform for external customers. Our infrastructure is comprised of a large global portfolio of more than 200 datacenters supporting services for more than 1 billion customers in over 90 countries worldwide. We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our organization to develop Supply Chain platform solutions that power Cloud and Devices supply chains for Microsoft. We are building solutions that give Microsoft the ability to succeed in an ever-changing business environment.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

5+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and running cloud services at large scale using the .NET framework.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with distributed systems and event driven architectures
• Excellent coding skills, strong in OOPS, OOAD, design patterns and their application
• Strong with Microsoft .NET technologies (C# and the .NET Framework)
• Ability to both work independently and coordinate across geographies.
• Ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts to a variety of cross-group stakeholders
• Strong organization skills, a bias for action, and ability to deliver results
• Proven ability to deal with ambiguity and drive for clarity
• Demonstrated ability to work efficiently, prioritize workflow, ramp quickly, and meet demanding deadlines
• Familiarity with distributed systems and event driven architectures
• Hands on experience building and maintaining REST microservices using NoSQL storage or RDBMS
• Experience with SQL databases or other relational database systems, including data modeling
• Experience with data technologies like Azure Data Explorer (Kusto), Databricks, Azure HDInsight, Azure Data Lake, Data Factories, Hadoop, or Spark
• Familiarity with NoSQL document stores (e.g. MongoDB, Azure Cosmos DB) and/or graph DBs
• Front-end experience with Angular, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and/or TypeScript
• Strong coding, debugging and problem-solving skills
• Interest in delivering and influencing large transformational projects
• Able to work efficiently, prioritize workflow, and meet deadlines
• Good communications skills; able to share complex ideas with other teams
• Proven ability to deal with ambiguity and drive for clarity

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.

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.

Be part of a collaborative, co-operative and driven team to build the engineering foundation of the future of the Microsoft Supply Chain.

Seek out and engage with stakeholders to determine requirements, leveraging their subject matter expertise to influence the final state architecture, collect feedback, iterate and align on the path forward.

Perform detailed analysis of requirements to identify dependencies, write design documents to meet the requirements, taking a platform mindset to designing the capability.

Write high quality code to implement the design, leveraging existing platform frameworks and capabilities to build the solution, documenting it in detail for maintainability and presentability.

Operate with a live site-first mindset, prioritizing the service health above all, taking up Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) rotations to ensure responsiveness of the engineering team to customer reported incidents and to system alerts, mitigating them within defined SLAs, identify opportunities for optimization and standardization for long term Quality of Service.

Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Influence technical direction at an organizational level.