Software Engineer II- Backend

Company: Microsoft Corporation
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: June 15, 2022

Job Description:

**_By applying to this position, you are being considered for multiple like positions within our organization for an invitation-only Virtual Interview Day on Wednesday, June 22nd 2022._** **Position specifics, including hiring team, location and position details will be determined following the interview process.**Help unlock the true power of data today to create a better tomorrow.The Intelligence Platform team at Microsoft, is creating a new generation of tools and infrastructure to transform data into insight and into action. The world produces exabytes of data every hour, yet people and organizations tap into only a fraction of its full value today because their tools take too much time and expertise to use. We've set out to make it easy for them to harness data to solve critical problems and create innovative new products, services, and experiences. So that it looks and feels like magic to our users, our team does the hard work to build world-class user experiences, platforms and services that remove the complexity and pain of working with big data.We're looking for great back-end engineers to develop world-class services that enable people to easily extract the full value of their data. You will solve hard problems in distributed systems, containerized workflows, compilers, big data, query optimization, storage, networking, or more. You will leverage open-source and proprietary technologies and use languages including C, C++, C#, Java, Python, and more. You will build and operate services with world-class availability, performance, and scalability.We're a rapidly growing global team. We foster a high-trust environment with great collaboration, open dialogue, and fun. We celebrate our different identities, cultures, experiences, and work styles. We seek out diverse perspectives and challenge our assumptions, so we build the best product together. We value excellence and support each other in learning and growing together. We try new ideas, learn, fail-fast, and try again. And ultimately, we love delighting our customers and helping them succeed.We'd like your help in advancing the state-of-the-art in big data!**Responsibilities**+ Deliver world-class, planet-scale cloud services to customers in collaboration with architects and product managers+ Deploy and operate production services that customers trust and depend on+ Make engineering investments and build reusable components to ship faster with higher quality and consistency+ Work with customers to make them successful and understand their unmet needs+ Collaborate with partner teams to deliver new value in our product and across Microsoft's products+ Foster a culture of excellence, inclusion, collaboration, and customer focus**Qualifications****Required Qualifications**+ 3+ years of industry software engineering experience developing and operating complex systems using C++, C#, Java, OR Python**Preferred Qualifications**+ Undergraduate degree in Computer Science OR related engineering experience+ Systematic problem solving with clean, modular design thinking+ Track record of excellence in software engineering, including design, coding, code reviews, testing, and devops+ Excellent communication and collaboration in a team environment+ Experience with building, deploying, and operating applications and services on cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP)+ Experience with using big data, streaming, and analytics (e.g., Spark, SQL, Power BI)+ Experience with database/compiler internals and containerization technologies (e.g., B+ trees, query optimization, SQL query compiler, Kubernetes, Docker)+ Growth mindset to learn, seek diverse viewpoints, and stay current with industry trends and techniques+ Startup mentality to move and iterate rapidly, work across disciplines, and focus on customers

Keywords: Microsoft Corporation, Sunnyvale , Software Engineer II- Backend, IT / Software / Systems , Sunnyvale, California