Software Engineer II (Networking)

Would you like to be part of a team that delivers rich, scalable, and secure networking capabilities for private and hybrid cloud environments? Our team owns the Software Defined Networking (SDN) platform, a key component of Microsoft’s Hybrid Cloud portfolio. Customers deploy our SDN solutions across private and hybrid cloud environments. We are a collaborative and inclusive team that puts customer needs first. As part of the Windows + Devices organization, you will influence the Windows Server platform that powers critical workloads worldwide. As part of this team, you will work across a broad spectrum of the SDN stack, spanning user and admin experiences, control plane services, and high‑performance networking datapath components. You will collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand customer and user requirements and independently apply appropriate artificial intelligence tools and practices across the software development lifecycle to improve productivity, quality, and insight. You will create clear test strategies to ensure solution quality, write testable, extensible, and maintainable code, and review code to ensure correct test coverage and adherence to team standards. You will implement debugging tools, tests, logs, and telemetry to validate assumptions and improve observability, while striving for automation wherever possible. Security and reliability are first‑class concerns in this role. You will apply and review coding patterns, security risks, and compliance considerations during design and code reviews, and consistently apply security best practices to achieve hardened, production‑ready networking features. Our SDN solution also plays a key role in Azure Arc, enabling customers to build consistent and manageable hybrid cloud environments through end‑to‑end ownership—from UI and APIs to control plane and datapath.