Software Engineer II - CTJ - POLY

Microsoft is a leading technology company that empowers every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. They are seeking a Software Engineer II to build tools and systems for M365 sovereign cloud operations, focusing on code development that addresses operational challenges and enhances service delivery. Responsibilities: Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable with minimal supervision; Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable; Considers diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability with few defects, and understands when the code is ready to be shared and delivered; Applies coding patterns and best practices to write code (e.g., leveraging state-of-the-art generative artificial intelligence [GenAI], approaches to source code organization, naming conventions); Acts as a designated responsible individual (DRI), working on-call to monitor a system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions; Alerts stakeholders as to the status and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems; Responds within service level agreement (SLA) timeframe; Escalates issues to appropriate owners; Maintains operations of live site service, following security best practices when responding quickly to mitigate issues while using the minimum required permissions to do so that arise on a rotational, on-call basis; Identifies solutions and mitigations to simple issues and complex issues when applicable impacting performance or functionality of live site services and escalates appropriately; With minimal supervision, improves troubleshooting guides (TSGs), wikis, tests, and telemetry to make on-call better, and recommends user-facing support documentation and additional test coverage to reduce likelihood of future user-initiated incidents; Contributes to identifying dependencies, and incorporates them into the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight; Helps to actively identify other teams and technologies to leverage, how they interact, and where their own system or team can support others; Understands downstream interactions between systems; Contributes to the identification of 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; Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role; The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph; Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role; This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements; This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship-based legal restrictions Required Skills: C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Distributed Systems, Scalable Services, Software Engineering