Software Engineer II
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Overview Azure Edge + Platform combines the power of edge platforms, devices, and services to deliver comprehensive edge solutions, operating systems, and engineering systems.
Our team is dedicated to extending Azure's native capabilities to the customer edge, empowering customers to run a wide range of edge applications, including network-intensive workloads and mission-critical apps, with enhanced resiliency, security, observability, and performance.
Would you like to learn about the inner workings of Azure Edge? Are you excited about jumping deep into various areas and composing a bigger picture? Microsoft is leading the way to extend Azure cloud services to sovereign, disconnected, edge, enterprise, and hybrid scenarios.
Deploying hyperscale services into hybrid and disconnected clouds provides unique and innovative engineering challenges. If you are inspired by this cloud innovation, have the skills to build and support production grade services, and are looking for a dynamic and collaborative team environment, come talk to us!
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
As a Software Engineer II, you will contribute to the Azure Local product vision and be responsible for:
- Create and implement code for feature, reusing code as applicable. Consider diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects, and understand when the code is ready to be shared and delivered. Apply coding patterns and best practices to write code.
- Review code of a feature development to assure it meets the team's and Microsoft's quality standards, is reliable and accurate and is appropriate for the scale of the product feature. Apply feedback to current and future iterations. Participates in code reviews to ensure coding standards are followed.
- Build knowledge, share new ideas, and share pinpoints of engineering tool gaps to improve software developer tools to support other programs, tools, and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for complex product features. Use open source when possible.
- Contribute to the development of automation within production and deployment of a complex product feature. Runs code in simulated, or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products with little to no oversight.
- Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers. Considers partners across teams and their end goals for products to drive and achieve desirable user experiences and fitting the dynamic needs of partners/customers through product development.
- Identifies areas to efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms. Contributes to sustaining feedback loops from telemetry resulting in subsequent designs. Helps to create outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards.
- Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on call to monitor service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Alert stakeholders as to the status and gains approval to restore service for simple problems. Respond within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Escalates issues to appropriate owners
Qualifications
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
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Ability to engage DevOps engineering practices.
- Ability to learn and grasps concepts quickly in a fast-paced environment
- Great problem-solving skills and outstanding drive for results
- Commitment to collaboration and teamwork and ability to deliver via influence
- Self-starter, who proactively identifies problems and drives for resolution
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, Helm charts
- Experience with Micro services development
- Experience with .NET, C#, Golang
- Experience with building automated regression pipelines
Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U. S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 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.
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