Software Engineer II

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The Azure platform must meet the performance demands of Microsoft’s cloud services and server application developers. The Azure and Edge Performance team focuses on optimizing the performance of core Azure components and services. We are responsible for understanding and improving end-to-end performance to help product teams achieve efficiency goals for key Azure scenarios. Collaboration across teams is central to how we operate.

We are seeking a Software Engineer II to implement, enhance, verify, and operate infrastructure for validating the performance of core Azure components in the cloud. This role involves improving and leveraging data collection and analysis capabilities and reporting results to stakeholders. It offers opportunities to make an impact in high-growth areas critical to Microsoft, learn about cloud services and infrastructure, operating systems, performance engineering methodologies, workload design and implementation, and collaborate with experienced performance engineering professionals.

This position provides exposure to large-scale distributed systems and performance optimization techniques, enabling you to contribute to solutions that improve reliability and efficiency for millions of users worldwide.

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.

Required 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.
• 1+ years experience developing on and for Linux
• 1+ years experience with programming in languages such as, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, SQL, KQL

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.

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.
• 1+ years experience with industry-standard benchmark software suits such as SPEC and TPC and Linux performance measurements, analysis and tuning, perf, atop, flame graphs
• 1+ years experience with cloud infrastructure development, including containers and infrastructure as code
• 1+ years experience with data warehousing, ETL workloads and automation frameworks, dashboards and data science tools and techniques, EDA

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• Defining, implementing and executing test plans to achieve release priorities and specific customer requirements
• Triaging, validating and reporting test results to key stakeholders
• Onboarding, validating and tuning industry-standard workloads and benchmarks
• Contributing to secure, flexible and reliable infrastructure for test plan execution
• Implementing and supporting compliant, efficient and reliable data engineering infrastructure