Software Engineer II

The Microsoft Windows Server team is at the heart of building and maintaining robust, scalable, and innovative server solutions that are used worldwide. Our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our team charter includes for providing high quality, reliable and cost-efficient service for Windows Server’s SaaS customers. As a team we focus on driving adoption of the latest Windows Server releases by 1st Party Azure customers through deep coordination with the businesses, identifying and authoring TSGs for general consumption, engagement on incidents to drive down time to mitigation. We are dedicated to helping customers adopt updates with little to no downtime through technical investments.

Responsibilities

As a Software Engineer, you will be influencing Windows Server stability and quality so that our customers are not impacted by downtime caused by Windows Server issues. Your work will directly contribute to making Windows Server more intelligent, self-optimizing, and accessible, leveraging the latest advancements in AI and machine learning As a team we are looking for engineers who are excited about delivering fast paced, constant updates to our product, and collaborating across teams to bring the best experience and capabilities to our customers.  Builds knowledge, shares new ideas, and shares pinpoints of engineering tool gaps to improve software developer tools to support other programs, tools, and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for complex product features. Uses open source when possible. Develops higher-level awareness of other kinds of tools outside areas of expertise. Helps to identify internal tools and creates tools that will be useful for creating the product, determining if methods are still applicable for the current solution. Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight. Helps to identify other teams and technologies that will be leveraged, how they will interact, and when one's system may provide support to others. Contributes to determining back-end dependencies associated with product, application, service, or platform functionality for product features. Understands downstream effects of solutions and work provided. Helps to identify areas of dependency and overlap with other teams or team members and drives coordination. Contributes to the development of automation within production and deployment of a complex product feature. Runs code in simulated, or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products with little to no oversight. Troubleshooting Windows Server issues and working with respective vertical in resolving.

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, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

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, 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.

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