Software Engineer II

Do you want to create products that help power the digital transformation of global education systems and improve learning outcomes for students all over the world? Are you passionate about the ability to empower teachers, students, parents, and the ecosystem with data and data-anchored insights? If so, then there is an extraordinary opportunity to combine your passions and pursue BOTH as a Software Engineer II on the Microsoft Education Team working on School Data Sync.

COVID impacted education systems all over the world with ~94% of K-12 schools experiencing closures and the need for distance learning solutions. In response, Microsoft has worked with tens of thousands of customers enabling hundreds of millions of students and teachers with Teams and M365, helping schools make Distance Learning successful in the most trying of circumstances. With the rapid advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI), districts want to make sure students have access to the newest tools and technologies – but with safety and responsibility in play. School Data Sync enables educational institutions ranging from a single school to an entire country to enable Microsoft technologies for their entire students and faculty.

The Microsoft Education Team delivers products and services which empower educators, school systems, and school system leadership with data-anchored products like School Data Sync, Education Insights, and a powerful data platform underpinning it all. We are bringing these efforts together in a new forward-looking Education Data Platform product that will fuel the digital transformation of schools systems globally, marshaling the deployment of Microsoft O365 and Teams to hundreds of millions of learners, while empowering both customers and the entire Education Ecosystem with the data-rooted analytics and insights that improve learning outcomes.

We want you because you have passion for technology, constant intellectual curiosity, and willingness to learn and share. This opportunity will allow you to make a broad positive impact to the world of education data integrations and help drive change inside one of the world’s most mission-critical domains.

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

• Work with program management and more engineers to determine user requirements for a feature.
• Collaborate with team mates and partner teams to architect and design technical solutions.
• Create and execute test plans to ensure ongoing quality and stability.
• Capture new and existing designs in design documents to ensure product knowledge.
• Write clean and performant server code.
• Contribute to code reviews to ensure product quality.
• Participate in on-call rotation and livesite maintenance.

• Other
• Embody our Culture and Values

Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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 experience managing and deploying services on Azure using Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
• 1 years of experience maintaining a large-scale, released commercial service. 

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C#.
• OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C#.
• OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ years of experience designing systems and processes for running services at scale, drive cost & operational efficiency, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) methodology and being responsible for end-to-end quality of the service experience 

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