Software Engineer II

Intelligent Conversation & Communications Cloud (IC3) is an org within the Microsoft 365 (M365)portfolio of products. IC3 powers billions of conversations across Microsoft Teams and other clients. It enables reliable, high-quality audio/video calling, meeting, and messaging services across a wide variety of endpoints.  

Inside IC3, we are the group providing all the services that power Calling and PSTN workloads. Millions of customers around the globe rely 24/7, on the services that we build for running their core businesses. Powering all of this takes a set of well-architected, globally distributed, highly scalable services and applications. Our group is responsible for building and growing these services. 

Responsibilities

We are looking for a candidate who is passionate about building high-quality reliable Cloud Service features. As an engineer in our team, you’ll be working on changes to one or more services to meet the growing needs of Microsoft's first-party and third-party solutions. In this role you will work on projects with some of the following attributes:  

• Use Kubernetes and other container-based tools to develop highly scalable cloud-based micro-services. 
• Full stack web and application development using technologies and languages such as C#, Azure, .NET  

Qualifications

Essential qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience.
• 4+ years of software design and development experience
• 4+ years hands-on experience in any Object-Oriented coding language such as C++, C#, Java or Python

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Experience/Exposure with full-stack software development and/or data processing including React, Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, SQL, Spark
• Strong problem-solving, design, coding, and debugging skills

Interpersonal skills

• Growth Mindset with a desire to learn, a tendency to embrace challenges, persist in the face of setbacks, see failures as essential to mastery, learn from criticism and find lessons and inspiration in the success of others.
• Help to create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self, where all voices are heard, and where we do our best work as a result.
• Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges.
• A sense of personal ownership and accountability is required, together with the ability to deliver to deadlines while managing internal stakeholder expectations.
• Self-motivated with a strong drive for reaching across teams and organizations to make progress collaboratively.