Software Engineer 2 - Github

• *Overview**

Microsoft is growing its Engineering team and seeks experienced professionals to elevate our software engineering efforts. As a Software Engineer at Microsoft, you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and inspiring user experiences with your team.Within GitHub’s ecosystem, Actions powers automation for millions of developers worldwide, enabling them to build, test, and deploy code directly from their repositories. As the backbone of CI/CD workflows across GitHub, Actions processes billions of jobs monthly, from simple builds to complex deployment pipelines spanning multiple environments. Our team owns the core infrastructure and services that make this possible, ensuring reliability at massive scale. We're a group of engineers passionate about developer productivity, tackling challenges in distributed systems, container orchestration, security, and cloud infrastructure. You'll work alongside talented colleagues who value collaboration, operational excellence, and building products that developers love.

• *Responsibilities**
• Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.
• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds,

including participating in on-call and first responder rotations

• Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems.
• Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
• Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
• Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.
• *Qualifications**

Required Qualifications

• Solid experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining and delivering production software languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Go,

Ruby, Rust, or Python

○ OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,

Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer

Science, or related field AND some experience

○ OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,

Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer

Science, or related field AND some experience in Computer Science,

or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or

Python

○ OR Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,

Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer

Science, or related field

○ OR equivalent experience.

• *Preferred Qualifications**
• Some experience in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Bash,

Python, or a similar language)

• Some experience using general purpose programming languages

(e.g., Go, Ruby, or a similar language).

• Some experience with cloud environments and/or Cloud Native

Compute Foundation (CNCF) concepts.

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.**