Software Engineer II

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. The Commerce + Ecosystems (C+E) division is developing Microsoft’s large scale and business-critical services to empower e-commerce of Microsoft’s key businesses: Azure, Office 365, Microsoft Online Store, Microsoft Ads, and a lot more. If you buy a cloud service on Azure, subscribe to Office 365 or pay for advertising on Bing.com, you are using our commerce platform to transact.  We specialize in a massive infrastructure that handles the core licensing functionality for all of Microsoft. With this scale and reach you’ll find the opportunity to make an impact on Microsoft’s bottom-line directly as we process 90% of Microsoft’s revenue.

We are seeking a Software Engineer II to contribute to the development of a rapidly growing commercial platform. As part of our team, you will be responsible for delivering world-class experiences to our customers and partners. This role offers a dynamic and fast-paced environment, providing an excellent opportunity to work on highly strategic and industry-relevant projects. If you excel at solving complex problems, writing high-quality code, and are passionate about building and operating robust, reliable, and highly distributed software systems using the latest technologies, we would like to hear from you.

You should understand the software development cycle, from architecture to testing. You’ll have a passion for quality and be a creative thinker. You’ll build and manage secure, reliable, scalable, and maintainable stack, and then effectively debug it, test it and support it live. You should be comfortable owning a feature and making decisions independently. You will be empowered to envision, design, code, validate, and deploy key features with substantial customer impact. You will build critical cross-service expertise around Containers, Helm Charts, Linux, and Kubernetes best practices, architecture, design, debugging and troubleshooting. You will naturally share Microsoft’s culture and passion for growth mindset and set up for success and growth in your career.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features. 
• Perform analysis, identify dependencies and produce design documents for a product area with minimal oversight. 
• Participate in efforts to break down larger work items into smaller tasks and provide estimations. 
• Develop high quality secure and compliant solutions.
• Leverage sound engineering practices and principles. 
• Analyze how your features are performing in production to learn and make the product better
• Support highly available services used by millions of users on a daily basis 
• Drive improvements for systems and engineering processes with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets. 
• Deliver value through a collaborative approach spanning multiple teams across geographies. 
• Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partner with stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive project plans, release plans, and work items for the work-group. 
• Be a role model for an open, honest, and inclusive approach to problem-solving. 
• Support and influence the team culture toward customer-centrality and continuous improvement. 

Required Qualifications:

• 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.

Other Requirements:

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: 
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years’ experience in design and implementation of large-scale cloud services
• 2+ years’ experience building extensible and maintainable services
• Experience with distributed systems, micro-service architecture, scalability patterns, and high-availability architectures. 
• Experience with REST Based API’s development, messaging patterns (e.g. Service bus, Event Hub, Storage Queues) and cloud storage technologies ( e.g. Cosmos DB)  
• Proficient in problem-solving skills, with a data-driven approach to debugging and performance optimization. 
• Experience in deploying, monitoring, and operating services in the cloud. 
• Familiarity with modern engineering practices such as CI/CD and version control systems like Git.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools and technologies to enhance engineering effectiveness, coupled with a strong curiosity and commitment to continuous learning in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.