Software Engineer II

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

17h

About The Position

Microsoft's Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) team is responsible for constructing and managing the datacenters that are essential to powering Microsoft's cloud business. By anticipating and provisioning for ongoing scaling, we play a pivotal role in enabling a significant portion of Microsoft's revenue through its Commercial Cloud. The CO+I Engineering team (CO+IE) delivers services, applications, and automation supporting datacenter planning, construction, and operation. We own a large portfolio of services, including workflows that enable predicable, lowest cost datacenter construction, telemetry systems that drive high availability and optimized energy usage, and task and performance management applications that help our operation run as efficiently as possible. CO+I Engineering is a competitive advantage for Microsoft, and an important pillar in its cloud success.
Our core infrastructure supports IT technician experience, working across several business areas including Deployment, Break Fix, and Decommissioning. Each of these stages is crucial to the day-to-day processes happening in data centers, and with the growth in demand for OpenAI and other partners Microsoft works with, building efficient and scalable solutions for each of these areas is essential.
As a software engineer in CO+IE, you will be responsible for end-to-end deliverables with a high degree of visibility. You will be responsible for envisioning, designing, coding, validating, and deploying new features from the ground up, working with PMs and business partners to deliver features. Be prepared to work at a fast pace, while keeping security, accessibility, and scalability in mind. If this sounds like a good fit for you, please apply - we're excited to meet you!

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or related technical discipline 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.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in full stack development, including any combination of the following middle tier/backend technologies: C#, .NET, data technologies (SQL/entity framework/etc.), web services, REST APIs, JSON, XML and UI development technologies: JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, TypeScript, Angular, React.
• Excellent analytical skills and an ability to abstract concepts.
• Effective troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Ability to work with business and PM partners to align expectations and deliver results.
• Mentoring experience.
• Experience in leading, developing, and driving software development projects end-to-end

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.
• 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.
• Embody our culture and values.

What This Job Offers

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