▷ [04/11/2025] Software Engineer II

Job Description Microsoft Azure's core priority is to be world's most trusted, secure, and global cloud and a great place for people to work. Azure Networking is an important part of that. We are part of the Azure networking team responsible for designing, building and operating critical network services that will help us differentiate from our fierce competitors and generate new revenue. At the core of these services is a solid Software Defined Networking (SDN) infrastructure that we continuously innovate on to improve agility, reliability and cost effectiveness of our services. We are looking for a highly motivated, passionate and talented engineer to help build and grow the platform as we take on more and more mission critical workloads and secure them. You will have the chance to learn, understand and leverage a wide variety of technologies ranging from nitty gritties of how datacentres work to building fault tolerant, highly scalable microservices. 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 - Design, implement, and run highly scalable SDN services that enable networking of millions of services and VMs with timely execution and high quality. - Responsible for ensuring that highly usable, reliable and secure services are delivered to delight our customers. - Leverages 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. - Exhibit thought leadership in helping take the service forward with new capabilities and innovation, and improving the experience on existing capabilities. - Effectively create clarity of status, progress and blockers affecting large projects. - Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor 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. Qualifications Required/Minimum 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. 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. Additional Or Preferred 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, 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. - 6+ years of experience in commercial software development. - 2+ years of experience in building, shipping and operating reliable, distributed systems software, software Defined Networking is preferred but not a pre-requisite, experience developing software hosted in Azure, AWS, or other similar Cloud platforms. - Commitment to collaboration and teamwork and ability to deliver via influence - Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills. #azurecorejobs 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.