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Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 21, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft has an exciting opportunity for a Software Engineer II in the Cloud+AI Azure SQL team. As a member of the Azure SQL team, you will develop features, improvements, enhancements, and bugfixes within Azure SQL products which are used by Microsoft's worldwide customer base like Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machine, Azure Arc enabled SQL Server, and Azure Database Migration Service. You will also be responsible for deploying and operating Azure SQL services within an air-gapped environment.As a Software Engineer II, you will have the opportunity to work with engineers who enable a broad set of Azure services to be consumed by internal and external customers in highly secured and regulated industries. The systems and software you build will be required to meet the security policy and assurance requirements of both public and private sector customers.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.
ResponsibilitiesApplies best practices to reliably build and maintain code that is based on well-established methods, including obtaining code reviews, developing unit tests and integration tests, and updating associated work items. Collaborates with members of an Agile software development team to provide a daily update and notify team members of any blocking issues.Contributes to the development of automation within production and deployment of complex product features. Runs code in simulated, or other non-production environments, to ensure functionality and error-free runtime for products with little to no oversight.Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on a rotational, on-call basis to monitor services for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. Alerts stakeholders as to the status and initiates actions to restore service for problems when appropriate. Responds on-site, when necessary, within the Service Level Agreement (SLA) timeframe.Implements solutions and mitigations to more complex issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site service and escalates to incident managers as necessary. Improves dashboards and the supporting telemetry to provide an early detection of customer-impacting issues and reduce the time to mitigate.Collaborates with internal SQL teams to maintain awareness of service updates that may impact the air-gapped environment and implement software enhancements that improve the usability, reliability, and monitoring for all cloud environments.Embody our culture and values. | |