Does pioneering new and innovative ways to reimagine and transform end-user productivity across the breadth and depth of Microsoft’s global workforce sound exciting to you?  Are you passionate about the future of work, driving innovation and showcasing an employee experience blueprint that inspires customers and partners to navigate their digital transformation?  If so, **Microsoft Digital (MSD)** team is an excellent place for you to grow your career.    **Microsoft Digital (MSD)’s** mission is to power, protect, and transform the employee experience at Microsoft around the world.  Come build community, explore your passions, do your best work and be a part of the team within Microsoft Digital (MSD). Microsoft Digital (MSD) is the team that innovates, creates, and delivers the vision for Microsoft’s employee experience, human resources, corporate and legal affairs, global real estate products, and runs Microsoft’s internal network and infrastructure, plus builds campus modernization and hybrid solutions. You will leverage the latest technologies and focus on empowering Microsoft employees with the tools and services that define both the physical and digital future of work.  We are seeking highly skilled and motivated engineers with a foundation in software development, cloud engineering, and a passion for innovation to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing and AI to tackle complex technical challenges, working with large volumes of unstructured data and driving innovation in enterprise-grade distributed systems. You will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automation processes, and cloud infrastructure using the Azure tech stack, DevOps tools, and best practices. Additionally, this role offers exciting opportunities to work on AI-driven automation solutions, where you will utilize machine learning, AI tools, co-pilot capabilities, and LLMs to streamline processes, enhance operational efficiency, and optimize our build, testing, deployment, and DevOps pipelines. As a **Software Engineer II** in the CELA Platform Technical Team, you will collaborate closely with business and technical partners to shape our overall product strategy. We emphasize rapid, iterative development with ample room for experimentation. Our team is a highly supportive and collaborative group, dedicated to the success of every team member. You will contribute to strategic, high-impact projects requiring high-performance design and highly optimized coding in a fast-paced, agile environment. We foster a culture that is customer-focused, collaborative, and fun-loving while maintaining a emphasis on work-life balance. Join us in a dynamic, growth-oriented environment where we solve complex challenges every day and make a meaningful impact! 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** + Collaborates with relevant stakeholders to gather and define user requirements for a feature. + Assists in identifying dependencies and contributes to the development of design documents for a product feature under supervision. + Learns to write and implement code for a product, service, or feature, leveraging reusable code where applicable, with guidance. + Supports task breakdown and effort estimation for work items while gaining experience in project planning. + Serves as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), monitoring system/product feature/service for potential issues such as degradation, downtime, or interruptions for simple problems, and follows established protocols to recommend corrective actions. + Stays informed about industry advancements and proactively acquires new knowledge to enhance the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products, while promoting consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. + Automates key processes, including testing, release management, and service monitoring, to improve efficiency and reliability. + Ensures adherence to responsible AI principles, security, privacy, and accessibility best practices throughout the product lifecycle. + Embody our Culture (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/culture) and Values (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) **Qualifications** **Required 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#, Java, Golang or NodeJS + OR equivalent experience. + Experience developing tools and processes in application security, security engineering or the cyber security domain. + Experience developing distributed systems, microservices, and event-driven architecture solutioning. + Experience architecting in any public cloud infrastructure (ex: Azure, AWS, GCP). **Other Requirements:** Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements that are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized 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. **Preferred Qualifications:** + Prior experience in DevOps.  + Prior experience working with Global teams and multiple stakeholders. + Prior experience building models and operationalizing them in production.  Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $127,200 - $208,800 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay Microsoft will accept applications for the role until March 21, 2025. \#MSD \#MSDJOBS  Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .