Microsoft · 5 hours ago
Software Engineer II
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
$101K/yr - $199K/yr
2+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company focused on empowering individuals and organizations. They are seeking a Software Engineer II to design and develop scalable software solutions, ensuring high quality and reliability while collaborating with diverse teams.
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Responsibilities
We are looking for a strong developer to help realize the above story. Ideal candidate will thrive amid ambiguity and enjoy building lasting systems in collaboration with others where success not only includes business value but having a cost-effective, reliable, state and scalable solution
Candidate must possess strong analytical, design and coding skills. In this role you will have the opportunity to design and develop software and services at scale, innovating on the latest technologies and following modern engineering practices
Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight. Helps to identify other teams and technologies that will be leveraged, how they will interact, and when one's system may provide support to others. Contributes to determining back-end dependencies associated with product, application, service, or platform functionality for product features
Identifies areas to efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms. Contributes to sustaining feedback loops from telemetry resulting in subsequent designs. Helps to create outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards
Creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests (e.g., unit tests). Adds new tests, removes antiquated tests, and aggregates tests to improve tests in the feature area. Helps to drive efforts for augmenting test cases and ensures that the solution area has good test coverage. Helps to integrate automation features when planning for testing
Maintain close technical relationship with partner teams, provide technical leadership and drive for engineering excellence and results
Qualification
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
Strong understanding of Windows operating system internals
Proficiency in building cloud-native applications on Azure
Hands-on experience with OpenAI APIs or similar LLM-based platforms
Solid experience with SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., Cosmos DB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB)
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Preferred
3+ years of experience in software development with C/C++ or equivalent Exposure to assembly, OS kernel, low-level trouble shooting and debugging
Experience with cloud platforms, Azure, Kusto, Python, AI tools is added advantage
Proven expertise in developing frameworks and solutions that scale across multiple teams and products
Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to design and implement scalable, high-performance solutions
Demonstrated ability to collaborate across multiple teams and align technical efforts with organizational goals
Experience with AI agent frameworks (e.g., Semantic Kernel, LangChain)
Functional knowledge of test-driven development and CI/CD pipelines
Excellent communication and cross-team collaboration skills
Company
Microsoft
Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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