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About Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing
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As a Software Engineer II in the Windows Cloud division, you will join an agile team focused on developing Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC. You will design and implement key platform features involving virtualized compute, storage, and networking to ensure high scalability and resilience for these desktop as a service products. Your daily responsibilities include gathering user requirements, creating design documents, writing code, breaking down work items, and serving as a designated responsible individual for on-call system monitoring. You will solve complex distributed systems problems while improving test coverage and performance. The role requires proficiency in programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. Candidates should possess experience with cloud services, microservices, and Azure backend services to support these large-scale, secure infrastructure components.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $202800 from 326 postings across 28 companies.
Design and implement key platform features for Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC.
Develop high-scale, resilient distributed systems involving virtualized compute, storage, and networking.
Create and implement code for products and services while reusing existing code where applicable.
Identify technical dependencies and develop design documents for specific product areas with minimal oversight.
Break down large work items into smaller tasks and provide accurate effort estimations.
Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) to monitor systems and resolve service degradations during on-call shifts.
Improve test coverage by organizing and implementing integration tests to resolve problem areas.
Drive improvements in system availability, security, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance at scale.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 2+ years of engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent).
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check.
2+ years of experience designing, implementing, and shipping cloud services or software products (preferred).
2+ years of experience with distributed systems delivering large-scale, secure, and resilient cloud services and/or microservices (preferred).
Experience with Azure Backend services (preferred).
Demonstrated communication and collaboration skills (preferred).
Ability to quickly ramp up, understand complex problems, and create solutions across many products (preferred).
Distributed Systems
Azure
AWS
GCP
Python
Java
C#
C++
Swift
Kotlin
React
Objective C
CI/CD
Identity and Access Management
Automated Testing
Monitoring
Data Protection
Microservices
Azure
AWS
GCP
C#
Python
Java
C++
C
JavaScript
Distributed Systems
Cloud-Native
API Design
Deployment Automation
Telemetry
Service Orchestration