Software Engineer II - CTJ - TS/SCI
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Virginia, Reston | |
 Mar 12, 2025 | |
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OverviewJoin the Cloud+AI Silver Team at Microsoft, where we have an exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer II. This team is dedicated to deploying and operating a Secure Work Area, which includes setting up and maintaining the necessary infrastructure. Our mission is to maintain and enhance the Azure foundational platform, ensuring it remains robust and scalable to support customer workloads. As the backbone of Azure, our work with Core OS enables dynamic scaling and empowers our customers to achieve their goals with confidence and efficiency. In this role, you will collaborate with engineers to enable a broad set of Azure services for internal customers in both Air Gapped and Commercial environments. The systems and software you build will meet the security policy and assurance requirements of both public and private sector customers. Through continuous improvement and close collaboration with our customers, we drive innovative solutions based on their needs and feedback. By fostering a culture of innovation and excitement, we deliver impactful results that inspire and drive success. 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 positivelyimpactour culture every day.
ResponsibilitiesDevelop cutting-edge software solutions that enhance the Azure foundational platform, ensuring it remains robust and scalable to support customer workloads.Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain innovative features based on customer feedback and requirements.Apply debugging tools and examine logs, telemetry, and other methods to proactively identify and resolve issues, ensuring high-quality and reliable software.Conduct retrospective debugging of solutions to identify root causes of problems and implement improvements.Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Alert stakeholders as to status and initiate actions to restore system/product/service for simple problems and complex problems when appropriate. Respond within Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe. Drive efforts to reduce incident volume, looking globally at incidences and providing broad resolutions. Escalate issues to appropriate owners.Drive efforts to integrate instrumentation for gathering telemetry data on system behavior such as performance, reliability, availability, usage, and safety mechanisms. Drive sustaining feedback loops from telemetry resulting in subsequent designs. Create outputs of telemetry such as notifications or dashboards.Drive efforts to collect, classify, and analyze data on a range of metrics (e.g., health of the system, where bugs might be occurring). Drive the refinement of products through data analytics and make informed decisions in engineering products through data integration.Build, enhance, reuse, contribute to, and identify new software developer tools to support other programs and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for products. Use open source when possible. Begin to develop skills in other tools outside areas of expertise. Identify internal tools and create tools that will be useful for creating the product, determining if methods are still applicable for the current solution. Share best practices and teach others about new tools and strategies.Define and develop standardized, repeatable, scalable solutions to guarantee quality.Work on Data Governance and Audit Logging solutions, integrating AI/ML to detect and prevent data leakage.Other Embody ourCultureandValues | |