Software Engineer II

Are you passionate about building high-performance, low-latency systems that power mission-critical workloads? The Azure Dev Services team delivers a suite of fully managed Azure services including NGINXaaS, Azure App Configuration, and Azure Managed Grafana that help developers build, monitor, and scale modern cloud applications with confidence. As a Software Engineer II on the Azure Dev Services team, you’ll take ownership of key product areas, collaborate across Azure, and help shape the future of developer infrastructure and observability. This opportunity will allow you to deepen your distributed systems expertise, work with cutting-edge AI technologies, and grow your impact across Azure. This role is part of a dynamic and collaborative team in the Developer Division under the CoreAI business group. Microsoft offers a hybrid work environment and is remote-friendly.

Microsoft Culture
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.

Responsibilities
Own and operate highly scalable, reliable, and low-latency distributed systems that power mission-critical workloads.
Design and implement features that enable configuration management, monitoring, analytics, and observability for modern cloud applications.
Drive integration with other Azure services to deliver seamless customer experiences.
Write high-quality, well-tested code and own the DevOps lifecycle, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
Integrate AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity and code quality.
Contribute to AI-enhanced features using technologies such as large language models (LLMs), Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
Mentor others and share knowledge to improve team capabilities and engineering practices

Qualifications
Required/minimum qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Good understanding of cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.P
Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, IntelliCode).
Additional or preferred qualifications
Master’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements is required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialised 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.