Software Engineer II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Dec 19, 2024 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft's Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) team builds and operates Microsoft datacenters, which in turn power Microsoft's cloud business. We anticipate and provide capacity for continuous scale, enabling ~30% of Microsoft revenue through Commercial Cloud .The CO+I Engineering team (CO+IE) delivers services, applications, and automation supporting datacenter planning, construction, and operation. We own a large portfolio of services, including workflows that enable predicable, lowest cost datacenter construction, telemetry systems that drive high availability and optimized energy usage, and task and performance management applications that help our operation run as efficiently as possible. Cloud Operations + Innovation Engineering is a competitive advantage for Microsoft, and an important pillar in its cloud success. Within the Cloud Operations & Innovation organization, we are the Inventory and Asset Management Engineering team that builds and operates Microsoft datacenters. We own inventory systems that track inventory within the datacenters, our data and services contribute a great portion of enabling Microsoft datacenters to run smoothly. In 2023 the team is starting to extend our dataset and services to different granularities and enable more opportunities to optimize the infrastructure, processes, and business workflows. We need your help to deal with the ambiguities and design & implement the systems. Our focus is on smart growth, high efficiency, and delivering a trusted experience to our customers and partners worldwide. Our solutions orchestrate and coordinate with systems and processes across many teams in Microsoft - creating and driving clean APIs across them. We acknowledge that the world will never be perfect, so our systems deal with it. We are looking for a Software Engineer II with deep technical expertise who can learn fast and contribute build systems that are dynamic, highly automated, and easy to operate. We leverage Azure components including but not limited to Azure web services, Service Fabric, Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Data Lake, Queues, and Azure Functions. We have a variety of synchronous and asynchronous systems working together to support planning, execution, operations, and security at hundreds of datacenters around the world. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesDesign, develop andoperatelarge scale,efficientand reliablecloud systems and solutions, in areas of inventory management for datacenter operations.Write high quality, maintainable, and high-performance code following demonstrated development principles.Collaborate with project managers and business stakeholders to design and deliver new features, working closely with partner teams across the org to ensure successful launches.Identifyopportunities and drive the implementation of monitoring, self-healing, and automation capabilities to improve service manageability and reliability.Participate in on-call rotations (typically 24/7 for one week every 8-10 weeks) acting as Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), monitoring production systems for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and taking appropriate actions to restore systems/products/services.Investigate and resolve customer-reported incidents, continually seeking ways to minimize or eliminate future incidents and improve customer experiences.Follow best practices and demonstrate thoughtful ownership.Embody Microsoft'sinspired cultureandvalues. | |