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Microsoft

Builds workplace software, PCs and cloud services

Software Engineering 2 - Ctj, Poly

Backend EngineeringPosted on Nov 13
Full-timeReston, VA, USA$102.1k - $219.2k /yrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, plus at least 2 years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python; equivalent experience is accepted.
  • Be able to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.
  • Hold an active U.S. Government Top Secret clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information and polygraph.
  • Be a U.S. citizen due to customer contractual and controlled technology requirements.
  • Maintain applicable Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to building new capabilities, maintaining service health through investigation and break-fix work, and delivering code changes in partner-team codebases; learn unfamiliar systems and partner contribution processes and apply sound engineering practices.
  • Identify assumptions and dependencies that limit Azure services’ operating environments, and work with experienced engineers and service owners to improve portability, maintainability, and reliability across commercial and specialized clouds.
  • Act as a Designated Responsible Individual and participate in on-call rotations for mission-critical services; diagnose incidents using source code, telemetry, logs, metrics, and service architecture, restore service within established objectives, identify root causes, and drive corrective actions.
  • Develop automation for deployment and production operations, identify recurring patterns and operational toil, and improve tooling and processes to make service delivery safer, faster, and more reliable.
  • Collect and analyze service health, performance, and reliability data; distinguish meaningful signals from noise and use findings to inform engineering priorities, product improvements, and operational decisions.
  • Follow and improve engineering processes that meet security, privacy, safety, accessibility, and compliance requirements, and evaluate designs and technologies for highly secure and regulated environments.
  • Stay current with cloud software, distributed systems, reliability engineering, and operational practices; build expertise in unfamiliar services and codebases and apply it to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance.

Desired Qualifications

  • At least 4 years of software engineering experience designing, building, debugging, or operating production services.
  • Experience developing and debugging software using C#, Java, or another object-oriented programming language.
  • Ability to diagnose software or distributed-system failures using source code, logs, telemetry, debuggers, and other diagnostic tools.
  • Experience reading, reviewing, and modifying unfamiliar codebases and tracing behavior across services or system layers.
  • Understanding of distributed-systems concepts such as asynchronous processing, concurrency, fault tolerance, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.
  • Experience building or supporting production services with an emphasis on reliability, observability, and performance, including participation in on-call or incident response.
  • Experience using scripting, automation, and continuous integration and continuous delivery systems to improve deployment or operational processes.
  • Experience contributing to partner-team codebases and collaborating across engineering organizations.
  • Ability to make progress on ambiguous technical problems by breaking them into manageable components, validating assumptions, and collaborating with stakeholders.

About the Company

Microsoft

Builds workplace software, PCs and cloud services

Microsoft builds workplace software, operating systems and cloud infrastructure for consumers, businesses and government agencies, from small organizations to global enterprises. Microsoft 365 combines Word and Excel with Teams communication and Copilot AI features, while Windows runs PCs and Surface supplies the company's own computers. Azure rents computing capacity, storage and databases to build and run web applications. Microsoft also sells Xbox consoles and games, collecting revenue through software licenses, subscriptions, usage charges and product sales. Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Redmond, WA
Founded
1975

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