Software Engineer II / Senior Software Engineer

2 Months ago • 3-8 Years • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

Microsoft's Microsoft 365 team seeks Software Engineers II/Senior Software Engineers to design and build its rapidly growing cloud services. Responsibilities include designing and implementing high-scale, low-latency, and cost-effective services; collaborating with principal engineers and architects; contributing to large-scale, distributed software solutions; writing clean, well-tested code; and participating in on-call rotations. The role involves working on products with weekly feature releases, impacting millions of users worldwide. Candidates should have experience in backend services, object-oriented programming (C++, C#, Java, or Python), and strong communication skills. Experience with DevOps, Azure, and agile methodologies is preferred.
Must have:
  • 3+ years backend service experience
  • Object-oriented programming skills (C++, C#, Java, Python)
  • Strong communication skills
  • BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering
Good to have:
  • DevOps experience
  • Azure cloud experience
  • Agile development experience

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 at Microsoft.

 

Do you want to work on a product that ships new features every week? If the answer is yes, then the 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. Join us to define, design, and deliver what enterprise cloud productivity means.

 

By applying to this position, you will be considered for multiple similar 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.

 

 

More about Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 is the fastest-growing cloud services business at 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 capabilities 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, and low-cost to maintain and operate. They work with principal engineers and architects to develop the right design for their components and help influence the development of common patterns. They possess strong partnership and influence skills and are motivated and able to collaborate with other engineers and teams.

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications

  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
    • OR equivalent years of work experience.
  • At least 3 years of experience in software design and development with backend services.
  • 3+ years of 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, and 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.
  • Experience with cloud services, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.
  • Excellent analytical skills with a 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

  • A growth mindset with a desire to learn, a tendency to embrace challenges, persistence in the face of setbacks, the ability to see failures as essential to mastery, the ability to learn from criticism, and the ability to find lessons and inspiration in the success of others.
  • Help 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.
  • Be confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges.
  • A sense of personal ownership and accountability, along with the ability to develop and deliver to deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations, is required.
  • Self-motivated with a strong drive to reach across teams and organizations to make progress collaboratively.

 

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 in team software engineering practices.
  • Mentor junior engineers.
  • Collaborate with related teams to achieve shared goals.
  • Promote knowledge sharing and contribute to the onboarding documentation for new engineers.
  • Participate in the on-call rotation to monitor service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, and perform complex incident management and problem resolution for the service.

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