Software Engineer II

Does pioneering new and innovative ways to collect and showcase key customer data sound exciting to you? Are you passionate about data and do you feel we have been missing the opportunity to be more data-informed at Microsoft? Do you want to contribute to an effort that is one of the most critical for the future success of Microsoft and E+D? If so, the Insights, Data Engineering & Analytics (IDEAs) team might be an excellent place for you to grow your career.

• Advocate technology which will help modernize our systems to ensure that our developers can work with the newest and best technology.
• Leads discussions for the architecture of products/solutions and creates proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans.
• Independently creates a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests.
• Leads by example within the team by producing extensible and maintainable code.
• Optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI)
• Applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices.
• Participates in code review, design discussions and brainstorming sessions.
• Improving our operational excellence to ensure that global development team can build, deploy and manage our service in a secured and compliant manner.
• Participate in on-call rotation to manage our services in production and take the right actions to mitigate any production issues.
• Maintains communication with key partners across the Microsoft ecosystem of engineers.
• Acts as a key contact for leadership to ensure alignment with partners' expectations.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• Strong coding skills in C++, C#, Java. Any language experience is fine if you are detail-focused with strong design principles and implementation skills.
• Experience with modern web technologies such as JavaScript, Node.js, and React.
• Experience in design and implementation of large-scale multi-tenant services.
• Understanding of big data domain will be a plus.
• Any experience in digital marketing will be a huge plus.
• Experience working collaboratively with a team of engineers and a strong passion for learning.
• Knowledge of modern engineering practices like automated deployments with integrated quality gates and experience working with modern version control systems like Git.

• 401k matching
• Health insurance
• Discounts on products and services
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.