Software Engineer II

Microsoft Teams is mission critical for small and large institutions worldwide. Especially in the era of hybrid work - as governments, schools/colleges & universities, NGOs & companies around the world look to maintain continuity and productivity- Teams usage has seen rocket ship growth. 

    

At Microsoft Teams, we tackle the toughest challenges in the calling and meetings, collaboration and productivity space, and you will have an opportunity to work with teams and technologies across the company and beyond.

Help us drive & deliver the mission of being the best-in-class meetings and events solution. 

The Teams Premium Services team is dedicated to delivering premium experiences like AI-powered meetings and recaps, meeting protections, event authoring, and advanced meeting personalization for both 2D and Immersive scenarios. This team offers exciting opportunities to build resilient, highly available, and scalable services that cater to the needs of a rapidly growing user base for Microsoft's fastest-growing product. It's a unique chance to enhance your system design skills and gain exposure to a cutting-edge technology stack (.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Azure, Kubernetes, Redis) while offering end-to-end ownership and a broad scope to make a significant impact.

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

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
  
  

Other

• Embody our Culture and Values
  
  

Qualifications

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#, Java or JavaScript
• OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ years experience in .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and Azure.
  

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

• Passion in designing and building large-scale services.
• 2+ years experience in .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, Azure, Kubernetes, Redis
  
  

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $83,600 - CAD $159,600 per year.

Find Additional Pay Information Here

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 31, 2025.

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