<b>Overview</b><br><div><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud (IC3) powers billions of real-time customer conversations across Microsoft’s first party (Teams, Skype, Azure Communication Servies), and second party (Dynamics) solutions. IC3 enables reliable and high-quality audio/video calling, meeting, and messaging services that work every time from anywhere seamlessly across all customer touchpoints. IC3’s mission is to make conversations on M365 platforms more intelligent in real-time empowering best-in-class productivity tools for the modern workplace where every call, meeting or chat will make the next one better.</span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Microsoft Development Center Tallinn offers an enthusiastic, high paced work environment where you can impact millions of users around the world. We are open minded, diverse and work flexible hours. You can look forward to an attractive work environment, state of the art benefits and the latest hardware and software in daily use. We subsidize food and beverages, public transport, gym, phone, broadband. Sports and gaming groups focus on your wellbeing. We are also focusing on your personal and professional development within MDCE and beyond.</span><br><br><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">As a member of the ESS (Engineering Systems and Services), the <strong>Software Engineer II </strong>helps build products capable of supporting hundreds of millions of users. Teams, Skype and Skype for Business growing Engineering group leverages technologies to deliver communication services - including voice, video, chat and presence - to the web and enable radically new Skype and Teams applications.</span><br><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">You, as an Software Engineer, will design and build our internal tools that enable a highly automated and robust Engineering Pipeline.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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.</span></p><br><br><b>Responsibilities</b><br><ul><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Design. Build, Deploy and Support maintainable software using a variety of languages including: Python, C#, JavaScript.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Support Skype and Teams Engineering System needs. This includes expertise in the end-use and backend configuration of these tools.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Engineering Systems and process expertise to support development, test, and release teams across Skype, Teams and Skype for Business.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Work closely with geographically distributed team, including Program Managers and developers, to drive key improvements in Skype, Teams and Skype for Business Engineering Systems.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Provide expert guidance, hands-on assistance, best practices, and trainings related to Skype, Teams and Skype for Business Engineering System to Engineers. This is not an IT support role.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Design, build and maintain core infrastructure pieces.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Debug infrastructure issues across services and levels of the stack. </span></li></ul><br><br><b>Qualifications</b><br><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Required Qualifications:</strong></span></p><ul><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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 </span><ul><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">OR equivalent experience.</span></li></ul></li><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Good working knowledge of Source Control systems and usage patterns, preferably Git.</span></div></li><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Familiar with build and test environments using tools such as: ADO, VSTS, TFS, QuickBuild, Jenkins, Bamboo, BuildForge</span></li><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Familiar with continuous integration and deployment systems.</span></li><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Familiar with cloud services such as Azure. or experience with Infrastructure as a Service</span></li><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At least 5 years of experience with any of the following languages: C#, Python</span></li><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Experience working in a cross-timezone, cross-cultural environment.</span></li><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Experience with Agile and iterative development processes</span></li><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Very good written and spoken English </span></li></ul><div><p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Other Requirements:</strong></span><br><br><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:</span></p><ul><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Microsoft Cloud Background Check: </strong>This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.</span></li></ul></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Preferred Qualifications:</strong></span></div><div><div><ul><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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 </span><ul><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">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 </span></li><li style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">OR equivalent experience.</span></li></ul></li></ul></div></div> <br><p>This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.</p><br><hr><br><p>Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html"><b><u>requesting accommodations.</u></b></a></p>