Come join us in the Azure Core Software-Defined Networking (SDN) team. SDN represents a key transformative technology that enabled the cloud computing industry through the virtualization of customer networks. We are hiring a Software Engineer II for our team where you can help build highly available, robust, performant, secure, and global solutions that enable our customers use to run mission-critical workloads on Azure.

We drive innovation across Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure, pushing ever-growing scale and capabilities to support 200+ Microsoft services, including Bing, Office 365, Xbox Live, and hundreds of thousands of Azure customers across 100+ datacenters running millions of servers and edge computing nodes all over the world.

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.

• Creates and implements code following SOLID based practices with minimal supervision. Leverages existing code and collaborates with other developers to ensure quality code.
• Creates a clear test strategy that ensures solution quality, prevents regression from being introduced into existing code, understands and implements a variety types of tests (e.g. unit tests) with minimal supervision.
• Contributes to code reviews to help improve code quality, coaching and providing feedback to develop other engineers' skills with minimal guidance.
• Maintains operations of live site service, following security best practices when responding quickly to mitigate issues while using the minimum required permissions to do so that arise on a rotational, on-call basis. This means responding to incidents, mitigation, identifying root causes of problems, implementing repair actions, and identifying mechanisms to prevent incident recurrence with minimal supervision.
• Embody our culture and values
• Understands and provides feedback for proposals for architecture, with technical leadership from others. With minimal supervision, tests and explores various design options for a product/solution feature, outlining strengths and weaknesses of each option. Collaborates with architects with minimal supervision to build and modify a product/solution feature, providing feedback as needed.
• Contributes to the identification of requirements for, and development of automation within production and deployment of a complex product feature, targeting zero-touch deployment when possible.
• Works with appropriate internal stakeholders (e.g., product manager) to understand and determine customer/user requirements for a set of features.

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.

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, avJaScript, 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.

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Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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.