FULL_TIME
2-5
Software Engineer II
11/27/2025
The role focuses on coding responsibilities and collaboration with stakeholders to determine user requirements. The engineer will also drive project plans and monitor system performance, acting as a Designated Responsible Individual.
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
This will be an individual contributor role with the majority of time focused on coding responsibilities. Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform. Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI). Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate. Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. Embody our culture and values 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 1+ year(s) experience with cloud technologies, including, but not limited to Azure, AWS, Google Cloud. Currently programming/coding in your current or most recent role Hands-on experience with asynchronous programming and concurrency (threads, tasks, futures, async/await). Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ 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 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. Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and/or Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Experience with Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) Experience with live site operations, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or production support roles. Experience with Helm. Experience in shipping products and services.
Key Skills
CodingCloud TechnologiesAsynchronous ProgrammingConcurrencyAzure Kubernetes ServiceAmazon Elastic Kubernetes ServiceGoogle Kubernetes EngineVirtual Machine Scale SetsSite Reliability EngineeringProduction SupportHelmCC++C#JavaJavaScriptPython
Categories
TechnologySoftwareEngineering
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