Overview

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.

Microsoft Azure powers hyper-scale cloud computing for internal services like Office 365 and Skype, as well as external mission-critical applications. Teams across Azure—including Azure Data, Networking, and Core Compute—develop scalable platforms supporting data warehousing, serverless analytics, virtual machines, and network telemetry. Flagship services like Azure Synapse Analytics and Microsoft Fabric enable massive-scale SQL queries, while global teams, including the Microsoft Development Center in Serbia, contribute to infrastructure reliability and performance.

Microsoft is hiring Software Engineers to solve deep technical challenges and build systems at cloud scale. Engineers collaborate with global experts on telemetry, compute services, and infrastructure optimization. The company fosters a culture of inclusion, respect, and innovation, empowering employees to grow and make meaningful contributions to the future of cloud computing.

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.

Responsibilities

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.

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)

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 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.

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

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 requesting accommodations.

Software Engineering 2