Our team is not only fun and supportive of each other, but we are also deeply committed to the success of the entire team. We play a crucial role in supporting Microsoft's Resiliency services within the AirGapped clouds, which include Azure Backup, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Migrate, and Azure Automation. Additionally, we manage the Microsoft Learn documents for these clouds.
Our dedication goes beyond mere support; we are focused on maintaining and optimizing these services to ensure their reliability and performance across our cloud environments. We are committed to continuous monitoring, proactive issue resolution, and implementing best practices to safeguard and enhance the resiliency of our cloud infrastructure. Come join us as a Software Engineer II!
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
Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
Embody our Culture and Values
Qualifications
Required/Minimum 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
OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements:
Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able 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:
The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.
Clearance Verification : This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.
Microsoft Cloud Background Check : This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: ?This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United States federal, state, and/or local United States government agency customer and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport, or other approved documents, or verified US government Clearance
Preferred/Additional Qualifications:
Understanding and experience with CI/CD concepts and Git.
Experience working with Docker, Kubernetes or other containerization technologies
2+ years of Windows / Linux hands on system experiences
Experience debugging issues ranging from the operating system, application, and all the way to the cloud.
Experienced in solving operational issues in a scalable way.
Ability to thrive with the ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and changing environment.
Support a 24x7 live site support model for the services the team owns.
Some experience with building and supporting large-scale production services, including logging, monitoring, alerting, and measuring reliability and availability.
Proficient in at least one scripting language but knows when to move solutions into managed code.
Azure DevOps and GitHub tooling
Demonstrated ability to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary team consisting of Software Engineers, Program Managers, Security Researchers, and Data Scientists.
Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 4, 2025
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