Software Engineer II Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

In this role, you will be responsible for all aspects of the services (design, develop, quality, oversee production deployment, service availability & reliability.) S/he will actively be committed in ensuring our Live Site meets the availability, reliability and latency requirements.

* A BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
* 5+ years software development experience (online services preferred) and experience in testing, deploying and supporting large scale services on Azure, AWS or similar environments
* Excellent C# coding skills building enterprise grade Internet scale web applications
* Good JavaScript front end coding skills
* Good skills developing performant T-SQL programmable objects
* Good communication skills to articulate problem statements and applicable solutions
* Ability to understand unfamiliar code bases, and debug server-side, multi-threaded, and highly scalable applicationsAbility to understand unfamiliar code bases, and debug server-side, multi-threaded, and highly scalable applications

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

* Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, reliability, scalability, latency, security, resiliency, and efficiency of a service
* Contribute in debugging, troubleshooting complete stack of a service and drive analysis of an outage; write software and build automation to resolve problems permanently
* Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning
* Participate actively in code reviews, bug/issue triage with the feature teams, and support well informed decisions towards business and engineering goals
* Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for operating services and systems; assess design and code changes to drive improvements
* Conduct periodic on call duties