Software Engineer II

If you are passionate about designing and building the next gen collaboration and teamwork experiences while being an integral part of a product that touches the lives of millions of users worldwide, then look no further. This is your opportunity to be part of a startup group within one of the most exciting and challenging teams at Microsoft. 

We are the Skype Core Services team responsible for delivering mission-critical services to provide client applications access to a multitude of Office 365 Core Services including our Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud. 

As a Software Engineer II, you will be building resilient, highly scalable, highly available and highly performant services that leverage state of the art technologies to deliver the next gen collaboration and teamwork experiences. We have a broad set of technology areas to challenge you, these include but are not limited to Storage, Cache, Authentication, Azure, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Security, Real-Time Communication, Information Protection, Engineering Infra etc. A unique opportunity to be part of a dynamic team culture that encourages learning, collaboration, and making bold bets. We are looking for passionate engineers to join us, to learn, and deliver an amazing impact to our business and community with solid innovation and cutting-edge technology. 

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. 

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. 

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.  

• Produce extensible and maintainable designs and code  

• 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.  

• Contributes to the continuous improvement of the team's processes, practices, and culture.  

• Embodies our Culture and Values. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, or related technical discipline AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C++, C#, Java, Ruby or Go  
  • OR equivalent experience.  
• 2+ years of experience working on large scale cloud applications.  
• 1+ years of experience with Service Fabric, Azure Kubernetes.