Microsoft Software Engineer II - CTJ Poly 

United States, Washington 

841789762

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In this role,you will have the opportunity to work with engineers who enable a broad set of Azure services to be consumed by internal and external customers in highly secured and regulated industries. The systems and software you build will beto meet the security policy and assurance requirements of both public and private sector customers.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Scienceor related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Security ClearanceRequirements

Other Requirements:Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements arefor this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Candidates must have an active TS and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph) or have an active TS/SCI and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph). This role will require candidates tomaintainthe TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance.Abilityto meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirementsarerequiredfor this role. Failure tomaintainor obtain theappropriate clearanceand/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements.You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will berequiredto pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions whererequiredorpermittedby applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with PowerShell, C#, or C++.

• Experience working on large-scale distributed services with on-call responsibilities.

• Ability to build and influence broadly towards common goals and priorities.

• Ownership of end-to-end project lifecycle with solid project management and communication skills.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 1st, 2024.

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• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on call tomonitorservice for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Alerts stakeholders as to the status and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems. Responds within Service Level Agreement (SLA)timeframe. Escalates issues toappropriate owners

• Contributes to efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data with little oversight on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring). Contributes to the refinement of product features by escalating findings from analyses to inform decisionsregardingthe engineering of products.

• Contributes to the development of automation within production and deployment ofa complexproductfeature. Runs code in simulated, or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products with little to no oversight.

• demonstratecompliance for product areas. Develops and holds an understanding of the implications of onboardingnew technologiesfollowing expectations of compliance at Microsoft.

• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

• Applies best practices to reliably build code that is based on well-established methods. Follows best practices for product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations.

• Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers. Considers partners across teams and their end goals for products to drive and achieve desirable user experiences and fitting the dynamic needs of partners/customers through product development.

• Maintains operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis. Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issuesimpactingperformance or functionality of Live Site service andescalates

• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call tomonitorsystem/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Alerts stakeholders as to status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple problems and complex problems whenappropriate. Responds within Service Level Agreement (SLA)timeframe. Drives efforts to reduce incident volume, looking globally at incidences and providing broad resolutions. Escalates issues toappropriate owners

• Drives efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms. Drives sustaining feedback loops from telemetry resulting insubsequentdesigns. Creates outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards.

• Drives efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring). Drives the refinement of products through data analytics and makes informed decisions in engineering products through data integration.

• Builds, enhances, reuses, contributes to, andidentifiesnew software developer tools to support other programs and applications to create, debug, andmaintaincode for products. Uses open source when possible. Begins to develop skills in other tools outside areas of expertise.Identifiesinternal tools and creates tools that will be useful for creating the product,determiningif methods are still applicable for the current solution. Shares best practices and teaches others about new tools and strategies.

• Defines and develops standardized, repeatable, scalable solutions to guarantee quality.

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