FULL_TIME
5-10
Software Engineer II
11/26/2025
You will develop reliable, scalable, and high-performance network designs and produce design documents and implementation plans for networking solutions. You will analyze traffic patterns across complete network infrastructures to identify needs to modify capacity and continuously review the network architecture to identify risks and determine improvements.
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
You will develop reliable, scalable, and high-performance network designs, and produce design documents and implementation plans for networking solutions. You will partner with Engineering and Program Management teams to understand customer, business, and technical requirements to propose network designs or modifications to architecture; participation in architecture reviews to ensure designs and modifications meet all functional, performance, scale, and compliance requirements. You will offer modification and improvements to network technologies based on existing and emerging industry knowledge to contribute to the design, implementation, and operation of reliable, scalable, and high-performance networks. You analyze traffic patterns across complete network infrastructures to identify needs to modify capacity. You will continuously review the network architecture to identify risks and determine improvements as well as measures to ensure highest network security. You will operate networking solutions with the highest quality bar and invest in developing and deploying robust automation tools that increase engineering efficiency, minimize operational burden, and reduce human errors, while optimizing the utilization of infrastructure and resources. You will define telemetry analytics and quality metrics to drive new data collection instrumentation that can improve the detection and troubleshooting of problems. You will troubleshoot and repair complex multi-layer incident issues. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. 4+ years technical experience in building or managing large-scale data center networks, in network design, development, and automation Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science OR related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Networking, Information Security, or a related field AND 2+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation. 6+ years of knowledge and understanding of network concepts. Proficient in BGP, MPLS VPN, Anycast routing, VLAN/Spanning Tree, TCP/IP, DNS(Domain Name Services), network security and virtualization core technologies based on hands-on experience. 4+ years of experience working with other teams and services to design and implement secure network architectures. 2+ years of experience deploying and troubleshooting key cloud network technologies: Express Route, Load balancer, Application load balancers, Firewall. Solid background in programming and a passion for developing innovative automated solutions. Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell and C#. Able to work cross-functionally in a global organization with diverse partners in different time zones. Able to turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid plans. Experienced with monitoring techniques, tools, alerting, and notification processes.
Key Skills
Network DesignAutomationProgrammingNetwork SecurityCloud TechnologiesTraffic AnalysisTelemetry AnalyticsTroubleshootingBGPMPLS VPNTCP/IPDNSVLANApplication Load BalancersFirewallData Center Networks
Categories
TechnologyEngineeringSoftware
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