Microsoft

Software Engineer II

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1 day ago
Redmond, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$102k - $219k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop distributed AI infrastructure and in-cluster services supporting large-scale AI training and inference.
  • Develop, test, and maintain C# control-plane services hosted on Service Fabric or Kubernetes/AKS clusters.
  • Improve system stability, efficiency, maintainability, latency, and cloud security.
  • Provide operational support and direct on-call responsibility for the service.
  • Develop understanding of AI/ML concepts and customer use cases while experimenting with available development tools.
  • Collaborate with service engineers, product managers, applied research teams, and data science teams.
  • Provide technical vision, expertise, and leadership to other team members.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Preferred: hands-on experience with large-scale, highly available PaaS or IaaS cloud services and microservices architecture.
  • Preferred: complex data structures and algorithms experience in resource allocators, schedulers, orchestration engines, database engines, or similar systems.
  • Preferred: proficiency in unit testing and testability techniques, agentic development skills, and experience operating stateful critical control-plane services.
  • Preferred: experience with data size and partitioning challenges, advanced NoSQL cloud databases, service reliability, instrumentation, KPI/performance analysis, and service/code quality.
  • Preferred: applied Kubernetes knowledge, including service models, workload packaging and deployment, CRDs, operators, Service Fabric, or service meshes.
  • Preferred: data-driven design, troubleshooting, and data analytics skills, ideally using Kusto.
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Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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