Microsoft Software Engineer II 

United States, Washington 

882498736

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Required Qualification:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or 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.

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.

Additional or Preferred Qualification:

• Experience with Cloud Platforms (Azure/AWS or other)
• Software engineering skills across all phases of software development lifecycle
• Ability to understand unfamiliar code bases
• Experience working with relational/non-relational databases and working with data at high scale
• Troubleshooting skills across network, application, cache, queuing, load-balancing, distributed services layers
• Understanding of testing principles and experience with automation testing
• Collaboration skills and critical thinking

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:, 2024.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in the design and development of features, experiences, and solutions for end-to-end business scenarios.
• Develop high-quality secure and compliant solutions.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to build new features.
• Design, develop, test, and support features, experiences, and solutions primarily in C#,.Net,Kubernetesand Azuretechnologies.
• Supporthighly availableservices used by millions of users daily.
• Work with support to triage and debug technical support requests.
• Analyze how your features are performing in production to learn and make the product better.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call tomonitorsystem/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• Participate in code reviews and work closely with senior engineers togrowyour skills.
• Embody our and