Software Engineer II- Full Stack Developer

Microsoft’s Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) team builds and operates Microsoft datacenters, which in turn power Microsoft’s cloud business. We anticipate and provide capacity for continuous scale. The CO+I Engineering team (CO+IE) delivers services, applications, and automation supporting datacenter planning, construction, and operation. We own a large portfolio of services, including workflows that enable predicable, lowest cost datacenter construction, telemetry systems that drive high availability and optimized energy usage, and task and performance management applications that help our operation run as efficiently as possible. CO+I Engineering is a competitive advantage for Microsoft, and an important pillar in its cloud 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.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a passionate, innovative, high energy individual contributor who can deal with ambiguity and challenge the status-quo to deliver automation capabilities that power the long-range execution planning efforts, drive workflow improvements and build solutions to assist in the delivery of large-scale data centers through efficient management of cost and schedule.

You will:

• Write high quality, maintainable, reusable code following SOLID principles
• Collaborate with and demonstrate features developed to stakeholders in an Agile environment
• Resolve complex system integration challenges working with other members of the team and external teams
• Share learnings and code assets developed with the CO+I engineering team
• Leverage subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items
• 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, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field, along with 4+ years of software engineering experience and demonstrated expertise in developing, maintaining, and delivering production software using one or more programming languages, including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python.

• Experience in building and operating production CI/CD or release pipelines for complex distributed systems.

• Experience troubleshooting build, test, and release failures across multiple layers of the stack.

• Proven ability to improve engineering systems through automation, observability, and process simplification.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in one or more languages such as C#, Python, Java, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
• Experience in designing and developing cloud-based applications, APIs, distributed services, or enterprise platforms.
• Understanding of object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and system-design fundamentals.
• Practical knowledge of generative AI concepts, including LLMs, prompt engineering, embeddings, RAG, and AI agents.
• Good problem-solving, debugging, communication, and cross-team collaboration skills.
• Good to have experience with Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, or similar technologies.
• Experience with Azure AI Search, AKS, App Service, Functions, Cosmos DB, Microsoft Fabric, or Azure Monitor.
• Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and managed-identity security patterns.
• Experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, caching, and performance optimization.

Background Check 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.

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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.