About the position
Join us to build the future of end user computing! Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 are fundamentally changing the nature of personal computing, pushing computing to the cloud, and making remote experiences better, more secure, and easier to manage than local. We are experiencing exponential growth given the explosion of hybrid work and the changing security landscape and are rapidly growing our team to help scale our product and build new and innovative AI powered experiences. As a Software Engineer II on this team, you will get an amazing opportunity to demonstrate leadership at both technology and business level. You will be part of a diverse, fast growing, and agile team working with a motivated team of engineers and product managers. Our culture is more like a startup - we will do what is necessary to help customers be successful, move fast, and have fun building meaningful products and services! 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
- Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions.
- Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design and code reviews.
- System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.
- Develop 'best-in-class' engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
- Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
Requirements
- 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, Python OR equivalent experience.
- Experience designing, implementing, and shipping cloud services or software products.
- Have hands-on experience with ASP.NET, Docker containers, and deploying applications using Kubernetes, particularly Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Demonstrated familiarity with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates for infrastructure automation and cloud resource provisioning.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
Nice-to-haves
- 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 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.
- Passion for and ability to quickly understand emerging technologies.
- Effective communication and collaboration skills.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and results-oriented.
- Broad experience and track record of working across teams to deliver shared solutions to complex problems.
- Ability to quickly ramp up, understand complex problems, and create solutions across many products.
Benefits
- Industry leading healthcare
- Educational resources
- Discounts on products and services
- Savings and investments
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Generous time away
- Giving programs
- Opportunities to network and connect
