Software Engineer II

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Australia · Software Engineering

Software Engineer II role focused on automating the onboarding and management of new hardware for Microsoft's datacenters, supporting Azure, HPC, Office, and Edge Computing products. The role involves understanding requirements, designing, and implementing features to validate, manage, and track hardware throughout its lifecycle, ensuring quality and security. It operates at the intersection of software and hardware, aiming to accelerate the adoption of new technologies.

What you'd actually do

  1. Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
  2. Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
  3. Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
  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 AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • equivalent experience

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • 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
  • equivalent experience
  • 2+ years experience working cross team, collaborating with others, prioritizing tasks, and working independently.
  • 2+ years working with or developing software for distributed systems and scalable cloud environments, and familiarity with network protocols.
  • 2+ years with demonstrated hands-on design, coding, debugging, and problem-solving skills.

What the JD emphasized

  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.