Software Engineer 2 - Azure Core Team

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The Microsoft Development Center Serbia, with Offices in Belgrade, started with 1 employee and couple of vendors developing handwriting recognition technology. Today, our focus is much broader as we’re contributing in key areas for Microsoft globally, having 700 full time employees.

Azure Core, a Microsoft team with a main vision to deliver world-class cloud infrastructure that powers the world's workloads. The Azure Core team organization spans software development, program and product management, and delivers the array of capabilities that serve as the foundation for customers’ cloud experiences. Among other things, the team in Belgrade is working on products that provide durability (prevention of data loss), high availability (making sure that services are up and running in presence of failures), orchestration (ensuring optimal utilization of our hardware), infrastructure efficiency and buildout systems for improving the scaling experience and many other aspects that are crucial to always provide smooth operation of the Azure Cloud.

We are looking for Software Engineers 2 who are passionate and highly motivated to work on researching, solving deep technical problems, and taking on new challenges. In this role you will collaborate with some of the world's leading experts in this area of technology, and have an excellent opportunity to learn, grow and advance your career.

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.

Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)

• 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.

• At least 1 year of experience with distributed systems or microservices architectures

Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

• OR related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript,

• OR Python

• OR Master'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.

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.