Software Engineer 2 Job at Microsoft

Microsoft Redmond, WA 98052

Interested in working on Cloud-Native Open-Source at a leading hyper-scale cloud? Passionate about distributed systems and building high-scale services? Azure is looking for engineers with knowledge and interest in building the next generation of cloud native solutions in Kubernetes. You can help build the future of cloud-native compute not only at Microsoft, but also in the wider open-source community!

Responsibilities

In this role, you will be responsible for designing, building, and deploying cloud-native solutions. You will be collaborating with other engineers to create designs and getting buy-in from the rest of the company and the CNCF community. This position requires strong collaboration across team and organizational boundaries.
  • Partner with product managers, business stakeholders, and users to understand user pain points deeply and create innovative solutions that delight your customers in an agile development environment.
  • Passionate about distributed systems and building high-scale services.
  • Enjoys new technological challenges and excels at solving them.
  • Strive for excellence in everything you do: culture, collaboration, process, tools, design, engineering practices, customer experience, performance, security etc.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
  • 2+ years of Software Development experience.
  • Experience with Go and Open-Source
  • Experience communicating with both team members and open-source contributors asynchronously via GitHub, Slack, and regular community meetings on Zoom

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience writing Golang applications
  • Experience building Kubernetes operators
  • Experience contributing to Kubernetes core or other CNCF projects
  • Experience mutating cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, etc.)
  • Experience with containers and container security
  • Proven track record of remote work and ideally, experience contributing to open-source projects
  • Strong ability to collaborate with external contributors effectively and respectfully. This team's projects are not "Microsoft-only." We help external contributors in the hopes that they will contribute to our designs and eventually become project maintainers

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.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $94,300 - $182,600 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $120,900 - $198,600 per year.

Microsoft has different base pay ranges for different work locations within the United States, which allows us to pay employees competitively and consistently in different geographic markets (see below). The range above reflects the potential base pay across the U.S. for this role (except as noted below); the applicable base pay range will depend on what ultimately is determined to be the candidate’s primary work location. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.

At Microsoft certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, annual bonus and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. In addition, certain roles also have the opportunity to earn sales incentives based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee’s role. Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of employment with Microsoft and the country work location. U.S.-based employees have access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, wellbeing benefits, paid vacation time, paid sick and mental health time, and several paid holidays, among others.

Our commitment to pay equity
We are committed to the principle of pay equity – paying employees equitably for substantially similar work. To learn more about pay equity and our other commitments to increase representation and strengthen our culture of inclusion, check out our annual Diversity & Inclusion Report. ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/diversity/inside-microsoft/annual-report )

Understanding roles at Microsoft
The top of this page displays the role for which the base pay ranges apply – Software Engineering IC3.
The way we define roles includes two things: discipline (the type of work) and career stage (scope and complexity). The career stage has two parts – the first identifies whether the role is a manager (M), an individual contributor (IC), an admin-technician-retail (ATR) job, or an intern. The second part identifies the relative seniority of the role – a higher number (or later letter alphabetically in the case of ATR) indicates greater scope and complexity.

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.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.



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