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FULL_TIME
2-5

Software Engineer II

11/21/2025

The Software Engineer II works with stakeholders to determine user requirements and contributes to design documentation with minimal oversight. They create, debug, and maintain high-quality Linux-based software deployed on Azure Cloud, while leveraging AI and automation to enhance efficiency.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

10,001+ employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
About the Role
Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features. Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight. Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation. Create, debug and maintain clean, efficient, easy-to-maintain and well-documented code to ensure that any Linux based software that gets deployed onto Azure Cloud meets our high-quality standards and provides a seamless experience to our partner teams and end users, reusing code as applicable. Leverage AI and automation to drive efficiency in our processes and reduce human toil. Be an Open Source enthusiast and contribute to our projects in the open source community via enhancements, code reviews and setting up of CI/CD pipelines. Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. 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++, or Python 1+ years of experience in Python and Bash. 1+ years of experience in handling Linux systems, ideally on public clouds and Linux Operating System internals including networking, storage and memory management and Linux utilities. 1+ years of experience in software testing and validation. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or Python OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Key Skills
CC++PythonBashLinuxAzure CloudAIAutomationOpen SourceCI/CDSoftware TestingValidationNetworkingStorageMemory ManagementDocumentation
Categories
TechnologyEngineeringSoftware
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