Software Engineer II
Microsoft
Microsoft Teams is core to Microsoft's vision for intelligent communications and productivity pane into the modern workplace. We are fast becoming the hub for teamwork in Office 365, with hundreds of thousands of organizations and tens of millions of users across the globe using Teams. Microsoft Teams is the fastest growing business application in Microsoft history.
We are looking for a Software Engineer II to drive implementation and improve efficiency of client build, release, and validation gating across multiple platforms, devices, and operating systems. Our infrastructure allows feature teams to deliver a new feature to millions of users in the order of minutes in an automated fashion. By automating repetitive tasks, you will play a key role in improving operational efficiency, reducing response times, and enabling the feature team developers to be more efficient.
About us
- We’re a savvy group of generalizing specialists; we blend years of software engineering expertise with some of the newest and most popular tools, frameworks, and methodologies to empower an entire organization to build great software.
- We are full stack engineer, leveraging wide range of technologies from C# .Net, Python, Azure OpenAI / ChatGPT, to React JS to implement backend/frontend systems.
- We pride ourselves in building smart systems and tools which make our fellow engineers more productive every day and enable them to ship high quality code to our customers continuously.
- We use Teams to ship Teams. Our tools are integrated into the Microsoft Teams itself.
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
- Build tools/bots to improve developer productivity, contribute ideas to continuously improve our systems, and drive actionable code and product quality feedback.
- Design, develop and maintain engineering infrastructure, tools, and services that power the CI/CD for Microsoft Teams across different clients and platforms.
- Build tools/bots/agents and leverage AI to improve developer productivity, contribute ideas to continuously improve our systems, and drive actionable code and product quality feedback.
- Champion best practices, tools, and processes for a data-driven, quality-focused release of Microsoft Teams as frequently as possible to our customers.
- Embody our culture and values.
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.
- Excellent problem-solving & debugging skills.
- Exposure of working with distributed systems, event processing at scale.
- Experience of shipping features and with Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) processes.
- Experience developing and maintaining engineering infrastructure tools/bots.
- Experience building Tools/Bots/Agents for improving developer productivity.
- Min 2+ years of experience in automation engineering, process automation, or related fields.
- Good to have experience in MCP & A2A architecture and agentic AI.
- Basic understanding of AI/LLM.
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:
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
- OR equivalent experience.
- Understanding of VSCode, PowerBi, OpenAI.
- Experience in Azure DevOps.
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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.