Software Engineer II / Senior Software Engineer

1 Month ago • 3-8 Years • Backend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Microsoft's Microsoft 365 team seeks Software Engineers II/Senior Software Engineers to design and build one of its fastest-growing cloud services. Responsibilities include designing and implementing high-scale, low-latency services, collaborating with principal engineers and architects, and ensuring high reliability and availability. The role involves working with various technologies (API design, Machine Learning, Distributed Computing, etc.) and contributing to the development of common patterns. Candidates must have at least 3 years of backend service development experience and proficiency in an Object-Oriented programming language (C++, C#, Java, Python). The position offers opportunities to mentor junior engineers and participate in on-call rotations.
Must have:
  • 3+ years backend service development experience
  • Proficiency in Object-Oriented programming
  • High-scale, low-latency service design & implementation
  • Collaboration with engineering teams
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent
Good to have:
  • DevOps experience
  • Azure cloud experience
  • Agile development experience
  • Excellent analytical and communication skills
Perks:
  • Industry-leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Product and service discounts
  • Savings and investment programs
  • Maternity/paternity leave
  • Generous time off
  • Giving programs
  • Networking opportunities

Job Details

Overview

WE HAVE SEVERAL POSITIONS TO FILL IN LATIN AMERICA - YOU CAN WORK REMOTELY FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME! 

The Microsoft 365 team is looking for software engineers to help design and build one of the fastest growing cloud services in Microsoft.  

Do you want to work on a product that ships new features every week? If the answer to these questions is yes, then Microsoft 365 team would like to hear from you!   

We build and operate the largest enterprise cloud productivity system in the world. Across products such as Exchange, Teams, and SharePoint, we power communication, sharing, search, intelligent assistance for customers, extensibility through Microsoft Graph, and more. Throughout we maintain very high reliability and availability, strong privacy and compliance for customers, and latency in milliseconds. We apply a combination of approaches from the fields of API design, Machine Learning, Distributed Computing, Workflow engines, Algorithm Optimization, and many more. Come to define, design, and deliver what enterprise cloud productivity means. 

More About Microsoft 365  

Microsoft 365 is the fastest growing cloud services business in Microsoft. M365 brings together cloud versions of our most trusted communications and collaboration products like Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams with the desktop suite of Office products in an always up-to-date integrated service offering. Since its launch, the service has made it easier for millions of information workers across the world in small, medium, and large enterprises to use the best of Microsoft’s business productivity solutions via the cloud. The service now extends the same capability to consumer communication and collaboration products.  

More about your Responsibilities 

Software Engineers at Microsoft play an important role in driving the technical details for projects for their product teams. They must be able to design and implement services that are high scale, low latency, always on, low cost to maintain and operate. They work with principal engineers and architects to come up with the right design for their components and help influence the development of common patterns. They have good partnership and influence skills and are motivated and able to collaborate with other engineers and team

Qualifications

Essential qualifications 

  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience. 
  • At least 3 years of software design and development experience with backend services. 
  • 3+ years hands on experience in any Object-Oriented coding language such as C++, C#, Java or Python or equivalent experience with C. 
  • Global collaboration is integral to our work at Microsoft. Proficiency in English is essential for effective communication in this role. 

 

Preferred qualifications 

  • Ability to communicate technical details clearly. 
  • Experience in DevOps to maintain live services and\or application frameworks. 
  • Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable. 
  • Excellent analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design. 
  • Passion for building reliable and well-tested services. 
  • Experience with or exposure to Agile and iterative development processes. 

 

Interpersonal skills 

  • Growth Mindset with a desire to learn, a tendency to embrace challenges, persist in the face of setback, see failures as essential to mastery, learn from criticism and find lessons and inspiration in the success of others. 
  • Help to create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self, where all voices are heard, and where we do our best work as a result. 
  • Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges. 
  • A sense of personal ownership and accountability is required, together with the ability to develop and deliver to deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations. 
  • Self-motivated with a strong drive for reaching across teams and organizations to make progress collaboratively. 

 

By applying to this position, you are being considered for multiple like positions within our organization for an invitation-only virtual Interview Day. Position specifics, including hiring team, location, and position details will be determined following the interview process. 

 

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities 

  • Drive a project through to delivery removing obstacles as needed to ensure success. 
  • Contribute to the design of large-scale distributed software services and solutions. 
  • Write clean, well-tested code. 
  • Champion and drive improvements to team software engineering practices. 
  • Mentor junior engineers. 
  • Collaborate with related teams to achieve goals. 
  • Promote knowledge sharing and contribute to onboarding documentation for new engineers. 
  • Act as a participant in the on-call rotation to monitor service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and perform complex incident management and problem resolution for the service. 

 

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

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