Software Engineer II

The Office Growth and Experiences team (OGX) is an experienced and highly passionate group at Microsoft that builds and maintains end-to-end ownership of Office across all platforms. Empowering developers with exceptional opportunities for ownership, autonomy, and professional growth as we tackle complex problems across Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android. OGX is responsible for a wide breadth of areas including best-in-class UX, next-gen collaboration, business-critical fundamentals, and driving user engagement for millions of users across our multiple ecosystems.

Within OGX we are specifically looking for a data-driven, quality-obsessed, energetic and creative Software Engineer II to join our team on building mission critical next-gen big-data telemetry pipelines processing petabytes of data every day, real-time alerting, AI-driven analytic tools enabling multiple feature teams to understand Office applications performance, reliability and usage patterns and drive strategic product investments for delightful user experience.

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

• Integrate AI capabilities into our solutions portfolio and apply AI-first mindset for individual productivity.
• Design, develop, maintain and optimize scalable telemetry, monitoring and innovative data analytics solutions and big-data pipelines.
• Analyze telemetry signals to uncover patterns, find correlations, root-cause issues, assess scenarios health to drive product improvements.
• Collaborate with team members, cross-functional teams and geographies to define technical requirements, manage dependencies, participate in technical discussions, and develop cutting-edge high-impact solutions efficiently.
• Follow and promote engineering best practices across the software development lifecycle toward delivering solutions in time, quality and spec.

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
• 2+ years industry experience in designing and developing high availability, reliability and scalability back-end services.
• Solid proficiency in relational databases and writing SQL queries; KQL is a plus.
• Solid understanding of HTML, XML, JSON, JavaScript/TypeScript, and RESTful services fundamentals.
• Solid verbal and written communication skills including proven experience communicating clearly and precise with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and articulating complex technical concepts effectively.
• OR equivalent experience.

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:

• Expertise with big-data frameworks, ETL pipelines, and data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Grafana).
• Exposure to Microsoft Azure technologies (or equivalent cloud platforms) including, but not limited to Web Apps, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Factory and Azure Storage.
• AI-first mindset with experience in ML/statistical methods for anomaly detection.
• Mobile development (iOS/Android) experience using Objective-C, Swift, SwiftUI, Java, React, Kotlin or cross-platform frameworks.
• Familiarity with telemetry platforms and experience leveraging telemetry to analyze health and usage patterns.
• Large-Scale Software Development: Familiarity with shipping high-visibility, multi-million-user applications and working in large codebases.
• Global Team Collaboration: Experience working closely with geographically distributed teams and ability to manage communication in different time zones.

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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