Software Engineer II

Verified Job On Employer Career Site

Job Summary:

Microsoft is seeking a talented Software Engineer II to join the Secure Platform Foundation team, which is responsible for innovations in system initialization technologies for Windows-based systems. The role involves driving advancements in platform security, collaborating with engineers, and ensuring the reliability and performance of foundational technologies.

Responsibilities:

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.

• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.

• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.

• Collaborates with a dynamic team of engineers, including mentoring other engineers in the workgroup.

• Drives for quality in everything and continuously seeks to improve the systems relied upon.

• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.

• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C/C++ OR equivalent experience.

• 1+ year experience with multithreaded programming, operating systems, device drivers and/or firmware.

• 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:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, Assembly (x86/ARM), Rust OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, Assembly (x86/ARM), Rust OR equivalent experience.

• Experience with Git for source code management

• Background in hardware architecture internals.

• Familiarity with hardware and software debugging

Company:

Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Founded in 1975, the company is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Public Company. Microsoft has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.