Software Engineer II

Overview

The Azure Portal empowers millions of developers and IT professionals worldwide to deploy, manage, and monitor their cloud applications with ease. As part of the Azure Portal team, you will create cutting-edge solutions that make a direct impact on how businesses run their cloud infrastructure. Your work will shape the user experience for Azure’s global customer base, helping drive innovation in the cloud.

As a Software Engineer II on the Azure Portal team, you will play a key role in designing and building features that extend the functionality of our platform. You will collaborate closely with partner teams, contributing to frameworks and Software Development Kits (SDKs) used across hundreds of critical Azure services. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth, deepen your technical expertise, hone your ability to iterate quickly in a fast-paced environment, and become adept at delivering next-gen cloud-based user interfaces.

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

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 of experience with full-stack web development or building API and/or framework SDKs consumed by external partners not related to your direct team.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.

Key skills/competency

• Azure Portal
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Software Development
• User Experience
• API Design
• SDK Development
• Full-stack Web Development
• C#, Java, Python
• System Monitoring
• Agile Methodologies