Software Engineer II
MicrosoftIndia3 days ago
Full-timeEngineering, Information Technology
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Does pioneering new and innovative ways to collect and showcase key customer data sound exciting to you? Are you passionate about data and do you feel we have been missing the opportunity to be more data-informed at Microsoft? Do you want to contribute to an effort that is one of the most critical for the future success of Microsoft and E+D? If so, the Insights, Data Engineering & Analytics (IDEAs) team might be an excellent place for you to grow your career. Be part of the team building platform services handling millions of users and exabytes of data. This is not just some large-scale web service: the implementation ranks among the world’s largest and state-of-the-art distributed systems, spanning across data centers around the world. The Insights, Data Engineering & Analytics team’s goal is to champion a data-informed culture; to inspire and enable the entire E+D organization to make more informed decisions through data. We see this effort as a huge opportunity to provide information to the organization that will improve efficiency, empowerment, and help Microsoft win in the critical cloud business sector.
The team is responsible for building solutions that accelerate growth across Microsoft’s Experiences + Devices (E+D) and SCIM portfolios, enabling programmability to unlock new customer scenarios. Driven by our commitment to helping businesses grow, we focus on providing partners with efficient tech product to run their growth campaigns. This includes designing and implementing intelligent capabilities using AI models and services to enhance developer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver smarter integrations. We also build high-quality, performant, and secure software components that power programmable experiences across Microsoft 365 and the broader E+D ecosystem.
For this, we are looking a Software Engineer II who could lead various efforts across both backend and front-end systems. Someone who believes in simplifying experiences and making our systems performant while they build new capabilities in the system is an ideal fit
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
Required Qualifications:
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 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.
The team is responsible for building solutions that accelerate growth across Microsoft’s Experiences + Devices (E+D) and SCIM portfolios, enabling programmability to unlock new customer scenarios. Driven by our commitment to helping businesses grow, we focus on providing partners with efficient tech product to run their growth campaigns. This includes designing and implementing intelligent capabilities using AI models and services to enhance developer experiences, automate workflows, and deliver smarter integrations. We also build high-quality, performant, and secure software components that power programmable experiences across Microsoft 365 and the broader E+D ecosystem.
For this, we are looking a Software Engineer II who could lead various efforts across both backend and front-end systems. Someone who believes in simplifying experiences and making our systems performant while they build new capabilities in the system is an ideal fit
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
- Advocate technology which will help modernize our systems to ensure that our developers can work with the newest and best technology.
- Leads discussions for the architecture of products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans.
- Independently creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests.
- Leads by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable. Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)
- Applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.
- Participates in code review, design discussions and brainstorming sessions.
- Improving our operational excellence to ensure that global development team can build, deploy and manage our service in a secured and compliant manner.
- Participate in on-call rotation to manage our services in production and take the right actions to mitigate any production issues.
- Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers. Acts as a key contact for leadership to ensure alignment with partners' expectations.
Required 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 equivalent experience.
- Strong coding skills in C++, C#, Java. Any language experience is fine if you are detail-focused with strong design principles and implementation skills.
- Experience with modern web technologies such as JavaScript, Node.js, and React.
- Experience in design and implementation of large-scale multi-tenant services.
- Understanding of big data domain will be a plus.
- Any experience in digital marketing will be a huge plus.
- Experience working collaboratively with a team of engineers and a strong passion for learning.
- Knowledge of modern engineering practices like automated deployments with integrated quality gates and experience working with modern version control systems like Git.
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.
- High quality software design & development experience of 4+ years.
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.
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