Microsoft

Software Engineer II

Microsoft$102K — $202K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 2+ years of coding experience (C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python)
  • OR equivalent experience
  • Preferred: Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 3+ years of coding experience or Bachelor's Degree with 5+ years of experience
  • Ability to engage with DevOps practices
  • Experience with microservices, containers, Kubernetes, and Helm charts.

Responsibilities

  • Create and implement code for features focusing on diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Review code to ensure it meets quality standards and participate in code reviews.
  • Build and share knowledge about engineering tool gaps and improvements.
  • Contribute to automation in production and deployment for complex product features.
  • Maintain communication with partners across Microsoft to enhance user experiences.
  • Identify areas for instrumentation and gathering telemetry data for performance assessment.
  • Act as Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) to monitor service and respond to issues within SLA.

Benefits

  • Health insurance and wellness programs
  • Retirement savings plan with company matching
  • Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
  • Employee discounts on various products and services
  • Professional development and training opportunities.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer II, you will contribute to the Azure Local product vision and be responsible for:

  • Create and implement code for feature, reusing code as applicable. Consider diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects, and understand when the code is ready to be shared and delivered. Apply coding patterns and best practices to write code.
  • Review code of a feature development to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft's quality standards, is reliable and accurate and is appropriate for the scale of the product feature. Apply feedback to current and future iterations. Participates in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed.
  • Build knowledge, share new ideas, and share pinpoints of engineering tool gaps to improve software developer tools to support other programs, tools, and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for complex product features. Use open source when possible.
  • Contribute to the development of automation within production and deployment of a complex product feature. Runs code in simulated, or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products with little to no oversight.
  • Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers. Considers partners across teams and their end goals for products to drive and achieve desirable user experiences and fitting the dynamic needs of partners/customers through product development.
  • Identifies areas to efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms. Contributes to sustaining feedback loops from telemetry resulting in subsequent designs. Helps to create outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards.
  • Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on call to monitor service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Alert stakeholders as to the status and gains approval to restore service for simple problems. Respond within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Escalates issues to appropriate owners


Qualifications

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.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 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.
  • Ability to engage DevOps engineering practices.
  • Ability to learn and grasps concepts quickly in a fast-paced environment
  • Great problem-solving skills and outstanding drive for results
  • Commitment to collaboration and teamwork and ability to deliver via influence
  • Self-starter, who proactively identifies problems and drives for resolution
  • Experience with containers, Kubernetes, Helm charts
  • Experience with Micro services development
  • Experience with .NET, C#, Golang
  • Experience with building automated regression pipelines


Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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