Software Engineer II
Microsoft
Software Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Overview
Azure Edge + Platform brings together Edge platforms, devices, and services to deliver Edge solutions, operating systems, and engineering systems. Driven by its customers’ needs, Azure Edge + Platform seeks to accelerate growth for Azure, E&D (Experiences and Devices), and Microsoft’s customers worldwide. #AEPJobs
The organization’s portfolio spans the Cloud Edge Stack, Azure Engineering Systems, Azure Media Services - for end-to-end media workflow and analytics - and Microsoft’s Operating Systems including the Azure Host OS (Operating Systems) and Windows. This portfolio impressively powers the world with more than one billion monthly active devices.
We focus on bringing Azure Services to Azure Edge Products. Our vision is to create a best-in-class Control plane for Azure Stack devices that can work in tandem with Azure cloud. We are a team to join if you like to work on innovative hybrid offering that is industry leading and help make them a reality on the Azure Stack Edge cloud. You get the opportunity to propose, design, create, ship, and analyze new features at a fast-evolving pace. You get the flexibility to explore and use technologies from the open-source ecosystem to purpose built applications and services that are best-of-breed to solve real customer problems.
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.
- 3+ years of software development, preferably developing and running distributed system
Other Qualifications:
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:
• Go, JSON/XML/YAML, REST, Web API experience would be useful
• Knowledge of Azure, Google Compute Platform or Amazon Web Services is desirable
• Solid CS fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, etc.)
• Excellent technical design, problem solving, and debugging skills
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or related technical field is preferred
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, verify, deploy, and maintain high-quality code using modern engineering practices and tools.
- Optimize, debug, and refactor code to improve performance and maintainability, and effectiveness.
- Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature.
- Collaborates with experienced engineers and mentors to translate ideas from research and design into production-grade systems.
- Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) in monitoring system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions for simple problems, and recommends actions to restore system/product/service by following the playbook.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of the team's processes, practices, and culture.
- Learn and adopt new technologies and frameworks as needed.