Join the Cloud+AI Silver Team at Microsoft, where we have an exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer II. This team is dedicated to deploying and operating a Secure Work Area, which includes setting up and maintaining the necessary infrastructure. Our mission is to maintain and enhance the Azure foundational platform, ensuring it remains robust and scalable to support customer workloads. As the backbone of Azure, our work with Core OS enables dynamic scaling and empowers our customers to achieve their goals with confidence and efficiency.

In this role, you will collaborate with engineers to enable a broad set of Azure services for internal customers in both Air Gapped and Commercial environments. The systems and software you build will meet the security policy and assurance requirements of both public and private sector customers. Through continuous improvement and close collaboration with our customers, we drive innovative solutions based on their needs and feedback. By fostering a culture of innovation and excitement, we deliver impactful results that inspire and drive success.

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Responsibilities

• Develop cutting-edge software solutions that enhance the Azure foundational platform, ensuring it remains robust and scalable to support customer workloads.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain innovative features based on customer feedback and requirements.

• Apply debugging tools and examine logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively identify and resolve issues, ensuring high-quality and reliable software.

• Conduct retrospective debugging of solutions to identify root causes of problems and implement improvements.

• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Alert stakeholders as to status and initiate actions to restore system/product/service for simple problems and complex problems when appropriate. Respond within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Drive efforts to reduce incident volume, looking globally at incidences and providing broad resolutions. Escalate issues to appropriate owners.

• Drive efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms. Drive sustaining feedback loops from telemetry resulting in subsequent designs. Create outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards.

• Drive efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring). Drive the refinement of products through data analytics and make informed decisions in engineering products through data integration.

• Build, enhance, reuse, contribute to, and identify new software developer tools to support other programs and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for products. Use open source when possible. Begin to develop skills in other tools outside areas of expertise. Identify internal tools and create tools that will be useful for creating the product, determining if methods are still applicable for the current solution. Share best practices and teach others about new tools and strategies.

• Define and develop standardized, repeatable, scalable solutions to guarantee quality.

• Work on Data Governance and Audit Logging solutions, integrating AI/ML to detect and prevent data leakage.

Other

• Embody our Culture  (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline 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:

Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:

• Candidates must have an active TS/SCI and be willing to upgrade to TS/SCI (with polygraph). This role will require candidates to maintain the TS/SCI (with polygraph) clearance. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.

• Clearance Verification : This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

• Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance

Preferred/Additional 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

• Demonstrated coding design skills.

• Demonstrated knowledge of data structures, algorithms, asynchronous architectures and distributed algorithms.

• Experience in concurrency, multithreading and synchronization is a plus.

• Knowledge of distributed systems is a plus.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until March 16, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .