Software Engineer Ii

The Azure Networking team continues to innovate across the stack, pushing new scale and features into the cloud and desktop platforms while transforming our infrastructure to meet the growing needs of the Artificial Intelligence infrastructure and several hundred thousand customers using Azure Services to host and run their Cloud Services in over 100 datacenters, running millions of servers and edge computing nodes all over the world.
Our teams work on the breadth of networking software defined offerings from Software Load Balancer, Virtual Networks, Network Security Groups, and other diverse sets of services.As a Software Engineer in the Software Defined Networking team you will work on unique and highly visible projects in the Networking area that would shape the future of our software services for networking scenarios.
The outcome will directly impact supporting the scale and pace needed for innovating on the requirements of Artificial Intelligence workloads.
You will be responsible for defining, driving execution and adoption of different features and capabilities in the core azure networking stack that will have a significant business impact.
You will have the opportunity to work in a broad range of technical areas, and across component teams inside Microsoft Azure, and within the Cloud & Enterprise division.Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
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Qualifications Required/Minimum Qualifications:Reliable, high quality software developmentDemonstrated & innovative solutions to complex problemsProficient written and verbal communication skillsFamiliarity with DevOps concepts that include continuous deployment, deployment automation, telemetry frameworks etc.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.Additional or Preferred Qualifications:Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science 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.Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.Industry leading healthcareEducational resourcesDiscounts on products and servicesSavings and investmentsMaternity and paternity leaveGenerous time awayGiving programsOpportunities to network and connectMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer.
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