Software Engineer II

Are you passionate about revolutionizing experiences through cutting-edge innovations? Does the challenge of building highly performant, distributed, scalable, intelligent, and compliant cloud-based agentic solutions excite you? If so, the Planner team wants you to help shape the future of work and productivity. At Planner, we are not just building a product, we’re shaping the future of collaboration for millions of users worldwide. We invite you to bring your expertise, passion, and innovation to our team and help us achieve this ambitious vision. Let's build the next generation of AI-powered productivity experiences together!

As a Software Engineer 2, you will work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment to solve complex problems in the work management space. You will have an opportunity to work on some hugely successful products and hone your technical skills.

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.

Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C/C++
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Strong debugging skills for native code and managed code interoperability
• Strong code optimization skills
• Demonstrate a growth mindset and a passion for learning new technologies.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, planning and problem-solving skills.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
  • OR related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C/C++
  • OR Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in C/C++
  • OR equivalent experience.

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

• 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.