Software Engineer II

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Job Summary:

Microsoft is a leading technology company dedicated to empowering individuals and organizations. They are seeking a Software Engineer II to contribute to the Azure Local product vision, implementing code for features and ensuring quality standards are met through code reviews and automation development.

Responsibilities:

• As a Software Engineer II, you will contribute to the Azure Local product vision.

• 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:

• 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.

• 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, Golang OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ years experience in site-reliability engineering/DRI practices to manage, support and debug production service.

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ 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 OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ years experience in building, shipping and operating reliable, distributed systems software.

• Ability to learn and grasps concepts quickly in a fast-paced environment.

• Problem-solving skills and drive for results.

• Self-starter, who proactively identifies problems and drives for resolution.

• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, Helm charts.

• Experience with Micro services development.

• Experience with building automated regression pipelines.

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.