Software Engineer II

Do you want to contribute to Microsoft's vision of empowering every person and organization to achieve more, with the power of cloud computing? Are you eager to work at the forefront of Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and the broad spectrum of advanced technologies that drive modern cloud infrastructure and services?  

Join the Azure Specialized team in India, where you can make a real difference by designing, delivering, and operating cloud-scale systems. We are responsible for building and offering specialized workloads, bare-metal and software capabilities on Azure, involving large-scale specialized solutions like VMWare, SAP, Oracle, Epic Healthcare systems, AI Infrastructure, and more. We are looking for customer-focused and passionate engineers from diverse computer science fields, like hardware, operating systems, networking, security, distributed design, and enterprise solutions, with focus on quality and sustainability.

Your ability to be the customer advocate, focus on service first, and part of a team that tears down silos to deliver the best customer experience will be critical for team’s and your success. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with internal business units and stakeholders to understand the requirements for efficient and effective delivery.
• Handle project features from design, implementation, to deployment.
• Independently develop a product, service or feature, taking code reusability, quality and security into consideration.
• Participate in breaking down requirements into smaller work items, to bring clarity and provide development and testing estimation.
• Make software services secure, reliable, highly available and fault resilient.
• Introduce automation for repetitive tasks to reduce implementation time and avoid failure due to human error.
• Take the helm in ensuring seamless service operations by addressing real-time challenges as they emerge, empowering you to directly enhance service reliability and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate with other engineers, teams, partners and project managers to deliver mission critical workloads in a fast-paced environment, while ensuring value-to-customers and live-site excellence.
• Lead, mentor, and guide engineers in the team, bringing clarity, creating energy, and driving results.
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications:

• 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.
• 4+ years of professional experience in designing, developing, and shipping software.
• 1+ years hands-on experience with distributed systems and services in the cloud.
• 1+ years experience/knowledge of cloud computing, enterprise computing, IaaS, and/or SaaS products.
  
  

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 Qualifications

• 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
• OR Master'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.
• Proven ability to solve complex technical issues for running online services.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  

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