Software Engineer II (Networking)

Overview

Would you like to be part of a team that delivers rich, scalable, and secure networking capabilities for private and hybrid cloud environments? Our team owns the Software Defined Networking (SDN) platform, a key component of Microsoft’s Hybrid Cloud portfolio. Customers deploy our SDN solutions across private and hybrid cloud environments.

We are a collaborative and inclusive team that puts customer needs first. As part of the Windows + Devices organization, you will influence the Windows Server platform that powers critical workloads worldwide.

As part of this team, you will work across a broad spectrum of the SDN stack, spanning user and admin experiences, control plane services, and high‑performance networking datapath components. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand customer and user requirements and independently apply appropriate artificial intelligence tools and practices across the software development lifecycle to improve productivity, quality, and insight.

You will create clear test strategies to ensure solution quality, write testable, extensible, and maintainable code, and review code to ensure correct test coverage and adherence to team standards. You will implement debugging tools, tests, logs, and telemetry to validate assumptions and improve observability, while striving for automation wherever possible.

Security and reliability are first‑class concerns in this role. You will apply and review coding patterns, security risks, and compliance considerations during design and code reviews, and consistently apply security best practices to achieve hardened, production‑ready networking features. Our SDN solution also plays a key role in Azure Arc, enabling customers to build consistent and manageable hybrid cloud environments through end‑to‑end ownership—from UI and APIs to control plane and datapath.

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

• Uses appropriate artificial intelligence (AI) tools and practices across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) in a disciplined manner. Takes responsibility for the content of their AI-generated changes to artifacts, reviewing all changes and applying appropriate tooling and processes with minimal guidance.
• Act as a full‑stack engineer delivering features that light up Azure Arc and hybrid cloud networking scenarios.
• Design and implement features collaboratively in C#, Go, and web technologies (e.g., Angular‑based UI extensions).
• Design and evolve RESTful APIs that form the SDN management and control surface.
• Build and extend microservices and backend components, including evolving data models where persistent state is required.
• Use modern communication frameworks such as gRPC to exchange data reliably and maintain consistency across distributed systems.
• Design and implement test harnesses to validate correctness, push scale limits, and measure performance and reliability.
  
  

• 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 equivalent experience.
  

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.
  
  

• Effective coding, debugging, testing, and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Solid understanding of systems software and/or distributed systems.
• A track record of solid results across multiple ship cycles.
• Effective design and implementation skills using C#, Java, or C++.
• Experience with networking protocols and architecture is a plus.
• Experience with scripting languages.
• Solid understanding of modern computer architectures found in desktop PCs and servers, including computer networking.
  
  

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.