Software Engineer II

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · United States · Software Engineering

Software Engineer II role on the Azure Hyperscale Networking team, focusing on network traffic engineering, quality, and reliability to support increased network traffic, AI transformation of Azure services, and AI training. Responsibilities include determining user requirements, contributing to design documents, creating and implementing code, breaking down work items, and acting as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for on-call monitoring and incident response. The role requires staying current with developments to improve system availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance.

What you'd actually do

  1. Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
  2. Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
  3. Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
  4. Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
  5. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field
  • 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • 1+ year(s) of experience in analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems

What the JD emphasized

  • AI transformation of Azure hosted services
  • AI training