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Posted date: Feb 27, 2025
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $153,550
Range: $98,300 - $208,800
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
The Edge Distribution Services (EDS) team at Microsoft specializes in delivering critical updates, including OS updates, security patches, and apps, to billions of devices worldwide. EDS ensures that systems remain secure and run optimally, touching billions of lives every day. The scale of our operations is astronomical, and we take immense pride in our mission. EDS is hiring for a dynamic Software Engineer II to join our Platform and Infrastructure team.As a Software Engineer II on our team, you will be at the forefront of designing, implementing, and optimizing highly performant and massively scalable platforms. You'll be involved in all phases of the lifecycle, from design to deployment and support. This role is your chance to accelerate your career growth and refine your technical skills while building key components for our platform and infrastructure team.
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.
Write clean code with a strong emphasis on well-thought-out design, focusing on quality, simplicity, and maintainability.Prioritize the customer's perspective and experience when designing systems.Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions from the initial envisioning phase to deployment and live site reliability, with a particular emphasis on automation and DevOps practices.Drive improvements through design reviews, code reviews, and test case reviews, integrating DevOps principles.Adapt to new technologies, tools, methods, and processes from Microsoft and the industry, while applying DevOps best practices.Contribute to driving future state architecture changes within the group, considering scalability, reliability, and automation.Enhance service fundamentals, including capacity planning, performance, reliability, and monitoring, with a focus on continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).Serve as a role model for Microsoft Values and DevOps principles through your behaviors and actions.
Qualifications
Required QualificationsBachelor'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 PythonOR equivalent experience.2+ years of Design/Development/Testing experience using various technologies.2+ years experience with SQL and database management systems.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.Preferred Qualifications
Experience with DevOps development and live site reliability.Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, networking, cloud security.Knowledge of infrastructure as code constructs.Experience building Distributed Systems with guarantees.Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.Adept at learning and adapting to new technologies and tools, with a focus on DevOps methodologies.Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 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 March 6, 2025.
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.
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