Software Engineering II - CTJ - Poly
About The Position
Microsoft is hiring a Software Engineer for its Specialized Clouds Power Platform team to build, deploy, and operate Power Automate services in air-gapped and sovereign cloud environments. The role focuses on distributed systems and delivering Power Platform capabilities in isolated environments, working with Public Cloud teams to bring features to parity while meeting the security, compliance, reliability, and operational requirements of sovereign deployments. The position combines software engineering and site reliability engineering. The engineer takes ownership of design, implementation, live-site operations, and continuous improvement, and contributes to automation, observability, operational maturity, and continuous learning. The team uses modern engineering practices, including approved AI-assisted tools and Microsoft Copilot, responsibly and in accordance with security and compliance requirements.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and at least 2 years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph.
- Must meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements; the role requires verification of the stated clearance before an offer of employment.
- Must pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
- U.S. citizenship verification is required due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and at least 4 years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and at least 6 years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual for service components, owning availability, reliability, and operational health.
- Participate in on-call rotations; assess incident impact, troubleshoot, mitigate customer impact, and drive resolution.
- Lead or contribute to root cause analyses and postmortems, and turn lessons learned into systemic improvements.
- Use approved AI-assisted tools appropriately to support investigations while maintaining security and compliance requirements.
- Troubleshoot availability, performance, security, and efficiency issues using existing tools and by developing new capabilities.
- Use telemetry and monitoring to identify trends and anomalies and proactively improve service health.
- Improve observability, alerting, and diagnostics.
- Identify opportunities to use automation and AI-assisted capabilities to reduce operational toil.
- Contribute to architecture and design discussions for Power Platform service components.
- Identify cross-team dependencies and incorporate them into design specifications and execution plans.
- Ensure systems meet performance, scalability, security, and compliance requirements, including air-gapped constraints.
- Evaluate AI-generated recommendations, code, and technical content using sound engineering judgment.
- Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment systems for safe, repeatable, automated releases.
- Drive zero-touch or low-touch deployment automation using internal tooling and safe deployment practices.
- Reduce manual operations and operational toil to improve engineering efficiency.
- Use approved Copilot and AI-assisted capabilities to streamline routine work.
- Collaborate with Public Cloud teams to onboard features, resolve dependencies, and align environments.
- Support integration and validation across Power Automate, Dataverse, and Power Apps.
- Participate in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and execution of engineering commitments.
- Share tools, prompts, workflows, and lessons learned that can improve team productivity.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
