Software Engineer II

Software Engineer II at Microsoft

The Azure Specialized team is responsible for bringing specialized workloads—such as Supercomputing for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Oracle Databases, NetApp storage, and many more—to Microsoft’s cloud offerings. This team works across Microsoft and with industry partners to deliver these joint solutions.

We are a highly impactful team that focuses on a wide array of technologies and offers numerous opportunities for growth and learning in areas such as Networking, Cloud Platforms, Service-Oriented Network Architecture, and Datacenter Networking at scale. The team primarily focuses on work across Software-Defined Networking (SDN) platforms, Top of the Rack (ToR) switches, and various services responsible for programming SDN-enabled network data planes to enhance the rich networking feature set offered to our customers, as well as maintaining and growing the set of specialized workloads we provide.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees, we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day, we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• 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.

Qualifications

This section outlines the essential and preferred skills and experiences for this Software Engineer II role.

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:

• 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.
• 1+ year(s) experience developing software for Software-Defined Networking (SDN), network switches or related networking technologies.
• 1+ year(s) experience in Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), data center networking, monitoring/logging platforms and strong problem solving and software troubleshooting skills.

Key skills/competency

• Networking
• Cloud Platforms
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
• Network Data Planes
• System Design
• C++/C#/Java/Python
• TCP/IP
• Troubleshooting
• Azure
• Distributed Systems