Software Engineer II

Microsoft

4d • $100,600 - $199,000

About The Position

The Azure Compute platform is transforming industries and empowering individuals across the globe by delivering world-class cloud infrastructure to host services and workloads at scale. Within this platform, the Azure Holmes team is on a mission to build the world’s best platform for running critical workloads with uninterrupted availability, reliability and scalability. We are hiring experienced engineers to tackle some of the most complex and fascinating challenges in distributed systems.
As the core of the Azure cloud, the Azure Compute platform is a fault-tolerant distributed system built on commodity datacenter hardware. The Holmes team, a key part of this platform, delivers dynamic resource management capabilities that enhance customer availability and platform efficiency. Our services drive innovations such as placement reshaping, defragmentation, overbooking, and transparent maintenance—integrated through intelligent algorithms for optimal performance.

As a Software Engineer IC3, Design and build highly available, event-driven microservices that elevate customer experience.Collaborate with Microsoft Research to integrate cutting-edge ML/AI models.Contribute to the evolution of a platform that powers mission-critical workloads at global scale.

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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 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.
• 1+ years experience in distributed systems and cloud industry
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Responsibilities

• Proactively validated assumptions using debugging, telemetry, monitoring, and automated tests to prevent production issues.
• Reviewed feature and test code for quality, coverage, security, and maintainability; coached peers to raise engineering standards
• Evaluated and provided feedback on architectural proposals, exploring design tradeoffs with minimal oversight.
• Collaborated with architects and contributed to solution architecture for complex features.
• Contributed to automation for deployment and production workflows aimed at zero‑touch operations, , applying secure coding practices.
• Broke down work items, estimated effort, and executed plans while ensuring security, privacy, and compliance requirements.
• Operated live‑site services using least‑privilege principles, rapidly mitigating incidents during on‑call rotations.
• Collaborated with Program Managers, security/privacy Subject Matter Experts, and technical leads to define customer and user requirements.
• Applied AI tools responsibly across the SDLC(Software Development Life cycle),validating and reviewing all AI(Artificial Intelligence)‑generated code artifacts.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level