Overview:

Job Title: Software Engineer II

Are you an engineer that has a passion for working on large scale projects for one of the most exciting and diverse divisions in the company? Are you looking for big, creative challenges that show immediate results since your customers will be just down the hall? Do you want to be at the core of it all, acting as a force multiplier enabling hordes of engineers to do their best work? If so, we have the perfect job for you!

The ES365 (Microsoft 365 Engineering Systems) team owns the services/infrastructure that make up the end-to-end developer experience in Office from source control and check-in experience to build, testing, security, compliance, and deployment automation, and we’re making big, bold changes – for the better! We’re making it easy to build and ship apps across platforms and endpoints, embracing a “one Microsoft” philosophy, open source, and industry standard tools. We are a data driven team building on insights from developer signals to enhance developer experience and in turn end-customers achieve more! (We serve tens of thousands of Office developers internally and Millions of office customers externally. We deal with petabytes of data and trillions of datasets every day.)

We’re a growing team, looking for great engineers. We have opportunities that span a wide range of front-end and back-end technologies including web application development, cli development, back-end services, AI, managed code, native code, cross-platform, databases, distributed systems, cloud services, and more. You will get ample opportunities to ideate from scratch and have complete ownership for your work!

If you have a passion for making engineers productive and happy and with that make M365 customers more productive and happier, we want you in ES365. Come be at the center of Office and join the team that’s building the future of Engineering Systems at Microsoft!

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.

• Responsibilities- Work with engineers, program managers, partner teams and end customers to deliver a set of features with the right overall design and architecture.
• Own and deliver complete features, including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, and shipping.
• As a technical leader on the team, you will be responsible for sharing insights and best practices that can be applied to improve development across related sets of systems, platforms, and/or products. You will continue to develop your knowledge and understanding of best practices through interactions with more experienced team members.
• You will provide mentorship and coaching to more junior engineers to help them identify and propose relevant solutions.
• Write clean well-thought-out code with an emphasis on quality, performance, simplicity, durability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Be committed to delivering the best experience for our customers.
• Help create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self and where we do our best work as a result.

Qualifications:

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• 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’ experience in professional software development.
• Excellent design, coding, testing, problem solving, and debugging skills in any language.
• Proficiency in Object Oriented design with one of these languages
• C#, C++ or Java.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Other Requirements:

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Passion for building highly available distributed systems at scale.
• Experience working across disciplines, groups, and teams.
• Experience writing applications using C/C++, C#, TypeScript, or JavaScript.
• Experience architecting and delivering distributed cloud services, Azure preferred.
• Experience in Machine Learning and AI.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.