Software Engineer II Microsoft
Redmond, WA

Job Description

Azure Networking is the team behind Microsoft cloud infrastructure. Physical Networking team is responsible for the data center networks that enable cloud services. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to customers and partners worldwide. We are looking for a passionate, high energy individual to help build the network that powers the world's largest online services.



We in Azure 1st Party Networking are collaboratively working to support the needs of our internal application groups and migrate them to our cloud platform. We work together across Microsoft to enable end to end networking scenarios for our dedicated application groups. Our team leverages the fundamental building blocks at the heart of the Azure platform to build trusted solutions. We seek highly motivated and talented engineers to design and deliver solutions leveraging our platform, including replication systems, highly available systems, large scale algorithms, dynamic and high-performance solutions at massive scale. We seek skills in software, hardware and network engineering.

Required Qualifications:

* 3 years of software development experience with at least one of the following: C/C++, C#/Java, Python, Go

Prefered Qualifications:

* Excellent technical design, problem solving, and debugging skills


* Outstanding interpersonal, collaboration and communication skills

Knowledge of switching and routing protocols is a plus.
* BS or MS or PhD degree in Computer Science

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.

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.

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

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If you are an ambitious Software Engineer looking for an exciting role to grow in the next phase of Cloud evolution, this is the place for you. Most roles do not require networking expertise, though it helps if you love data and large distributed systems.

We look for passion for innovation, for learning, for teamwork, for collaboration, for growth mindset, and for evidence of excellence.

Diversity and inclusion are keys to success for Microsoft and for our partners, and we seek to grow further in this dimension.

You will grow your career shape what the future will look like, while supporting the enterprises on which we depend for all parts of our lives at work and at home. With your team, you will work on solving some of the most challenging problems in distributed systems.

You should have proven skills in critical thinking, problem solving, design, engineering and debugging. You should have experience in delivering high quality, large projects, and be passionate about correctness, and building robust and scalable solutions.

You will have shown determination and accomplishment in one or more of:

Proven experience in shipping high quality products and services

Proven software fundamentals with previous experience on distributed systems programming or services development.