Microsoft · 1 day ago

Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly

Redmond, WA

Full-time

Remote

Entry, Mid Level

$98K/yr - $193K/yr

2+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Responds to incidents during regular on-call rotations, including complex issues with major customer or business impact, by identifying the level of impact, troubleshooting, contributing to difficult decisions based on business impact, deploying appropriate fixes to resolve root cause(s), and implementing automations for prevention of recurring issues through coordinating resources required for incident resolution, which may include product teams, owners, leadership, other engineering teams, and/or subject matter experts. Escalates resolution of highly complex, ambiguous, and impactful issues as needed. Contributes to postmortems and shares details related to incidents and their resolution through post-mortem reports and regular review meetings. Provides expert incident response assistance to other engineers as needed and develops incident response and resolution guidance.

Independently implements reliable, scalable, and high-performance solutions across teams. Contributes to design documents. Owns implementation and rollback plans. Maintains quality checklist and related documentation.

Creates, monitors, and takes action on telemetry data and influences telemetry analytics to better identify patterns that reveal errors and unexpected problems that are affecting the system’s availability, reliability, performance, and/or efficiency. Develops scripts and/or automation and leverages an understanding of solutions to define, develop, measure, track, change, and improve the quality of telemetry pipelines that support automated monitoring and incident response.

Qualification

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CC++C#JavaJavaScriptPythonCloud EngineeringDistributed SystemsMicrosoft AzurePowerShellIncident ResponseAutomationTelemetry AnalyticsSecurity ClearanceTechnical Communication

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.

Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.

The successful candidate 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.

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

Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.

This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements.

You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions.

Preferred

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 5+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, or systems engineering OR equivalent experience.

1+ year(s) technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems.

Management Information Systems (MIS), or other industry or product specific Engineering Certifications.

Familiarity with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell.

Experience with the Microsoft cloud and/or stack, Azure, Windows or other Microsoft software/services.