Software Engineer II

Overview
Are you passionate about building world-class web experiences that make complex cloud-native technologies simple and intuitive? Do you want to be at the forefront of CloudNative and AI innovation and shape how developers and platform teams use Azure every day?

We are the Azure Portal Cloud Native Experiences team, and we're looking for a talented Software Engineer II to join us in creating the next generation of developer and operator experiences in Azure. Our team owns the portal experiences for Linux and end-to-end Workloads, empowering customers to easily build, manage, and scale their business across environments and regions.

We also design and deliver skills and tools for Copilot in Azure and Github Copilot, bringing AI-powered automation, intelligent recommendations, and actionable insights directly into the customer workflow. By blending powerful cloud-native capabilities with seamless user experience (UX), we help customers accelerate innovation, optimize workloads, and operate their infrastructure with confidence. Azure Portal Cloud Native Experiences are used by customers worldwide, powering some of the largest workloads on Azure. If you're excited to push the boundaries of cloud UX and build experiences that impact millions of users, this is the team for you.

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.

Qualifications
Required 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.

• 4+ years of professional web development experience.

• 1+ year(s) of proficiency with the latest techniques building web apps and services using HyperText Markup Language (HTML5), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, React, and Redux.

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

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

• OR related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience

• 1+ year(s) p roficiency building engaging user experiences.

• 1+ year(s) of e xperience with frameworks like React, and TypeScript.
• 1+ year(s) of focus on scenario/unit testing; we use Selenium and Mocha/Chai at cloud-scale.

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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