Software Engineer

Come build community, explore your passions and do your best work at Microsoft. This opportunity will allow you to bring your aspirations, talent, potential - and excitement for the journey ahead.

As a Software Engineer you will develop software, tools and code to be used in support of design, infrastructure, and technology platforms as well as commercial or end-user applications. This opportunity will allow you to create and implement extensible and maintainable code for a product, service, or feature. You will partner with stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature and consider a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. You will collaborate with others to create a clear and articulated plan for testing, assuring quality of solutions, while applying knowledge of debugging tools, logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively flag issues. This opportunity will allow you to learn about customer scaling requirements and the application of best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations, while ensuring the correct processes are followed to achieve a high degree of security, privacy, safety, and accessibility.

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. 

About the team & role:

We are the Sky team. Our mission is to "Empower Microsoft Cloud teams and their customers to easily deliver high-quality services using standard cloud architecture and infrastructure.”

If you're a talented Software Engineer who is passionate about building cloud services, curious about learning new technologies and with a determination to solve complex problems, then this role will certainly offer you a fantastic career challenge.

We look for people who want to make an impact. Through your individual contributions, your contributions to the success of others and through the impact that you make from building upon the work efforts of others.

Join our diverse and welcoming team that is dedicated to building privacy, security, and compliant engineering solutions for the Azure cloud. We use an extensive mix of technology to ensure the best possible experiences that we can for our customers.

Note:

This role will act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on call, as part of a 24x7 support rotation, to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiate actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • OR equivalent experience.

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:

• Knowledge about highly reliable distributed systems, microservices, Service Fabric, and Azure DevOps.
• Technical acumen with a passion for problem-solving that drives results and impact.
• Excellent communications skills and ability to work collaboratively across several globally distributed teams.

• Learn to review and break down work items into tasks with stakeholder collaboration, provide estimations, and escalate delays, while also supporting feature deployments to customers, considering user and service impacts, and adhering to best deployment practices for safety.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to define feature requirements, integrate feedback to enhance design, and establish feedback loops for continuous improvement based on customer metrics.
• Learn and apply coding standards and best practices through code reviews, developing maintainable and extensible code with guidance. Utilize debugging tools to proactively and reactively address issues in product features, ensuring code quality and reliability.
• Support the identification of dependencies and design documentation for product features, learn about system interactions and back-end dependencies, and contribute to architectural processes under guidance. Produce code to test hypotheses for technical solutions and assist with technical validation efforts. Collaborate on quality assurance plans, augment test cases, and integrate automation into testing, while understanding the implications of security and compliance in system architecture.
• Contribute to data analysis and feedback integration for product engineering decisions, acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for monitoring and restoring system functionality within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Participate in live service operations, and support telemetry data integration for system behavior insights, with a focus on performance, reliability, and safety. 
• Develop and apply best practices for reliable code building, understand global and local regulations, customer scaling requirements, and support communication with key partners across Microsoft for user experience enhancement and partner needs.
• Ensure compliance with security, privacy, safety, and accessibility standards, leverage developer tools for code creation and debugging, contribute to automation in production and deployment, and proactively seek knowledge to improve product availability, reliability, efficiency, and performance at scale.