Software Engineer II Backend
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Redmond, WA - USA
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Job Summary
We are the Windows Servicing and Delivery (WSD) organization; our core mission is to keep customers protected and productive by delivering a seamless and timely servicing experience for our customers in existing and future versions of Windows. Our Autopatch service team is looking for highlymotivated SoftwareEngineer II to help us in this mission.
We value passion creativity agility accountability and desire to learn new complex technical areas. You will be an important part of a team of highly motivated and talented individuals and this is a great opportunity to challenge yourself and grow your career. As a member of our team you will lead the design development and deployment of highly scalable and reliable software components drive technical strategy and build cloud services that operate at high scale and availability.
At Microsoft our missionto empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve moreguides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted impactful solutions. With a growth mindset culture we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progresspeople teams and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape whats next for everyone.
Responsibilities
- Create implement optimize debug refactor and reuse code to enhance performance maintainability effectiveness and return on investment (ROI).
- Design develop and operationalize the deployment of complex enterprise-grade cloud services that leverage multiple services and platforms ensuring high availability scalability robustness and observability.
- Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers by developing and following the playbook working on call to monitor systems/products/services for degradation downtime or interruptions alerting stakeholders about status and initiating actions to restore systems/products/services for both simple and complex problems when appropriate.
- Pro-actively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends technical solutions and patterns to improve the availability reliability efficiency observability and performance of products while driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including but not limited to C# JavaScript Java or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements
- Ability to meet Microsoft customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- 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
- 2 years of experience in software engineering practices coding and foundational knowledge in data structures and algorithms with problem solving debugging and analytical skills.
- Experience building on top of Azure Services (Azure Function Service Fabric Logical App Service Bus Azure KeyVault Authentication Traffic Manager Load balancer App Insights etc.).
- Problem-solving skills with a data-driven approach to debugging and performance optimization.
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Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102100 - $202200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $133800 - $219200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
position will be open for a minimum of 5 days with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry citizenship color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information immigration status marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran or military status race ethnicity religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process read more about requesting accommodations.
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