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Software Engineer II

Microsoft

Microsoft

Software Engineering
USD 100,600-199k / year
Posted on Aug 6, 2025

Software Engineer II

Redmond, Washington, United States

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Date posted
Aug 05, 2025
Job number
1849376
Work site
Up to 50% work from home
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

The Auth Experiences team in the Identity and Network Access division builds the end user experience for the primary authentication flows such as AAD (Azure Active Directory) and MSA (Microsoft accounts) Sign-In, Signup, Account management and recovery. We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join us as we boldly pursue big ideas that power transformational advances in online security and user management. Our work spans both the consumer and enterprise space and can be found in internet scale online services, the Windows operating system and most phones and handheld devices. Identity engineering employees have deep technical expertise, customer insights, and a clear point of view that comes from first-hand, very large-scale experience.

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.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • 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, .NET or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 2+ years of experience in languages including but not limeted to HTML 5, CSS3 and JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • 2+ years of experience in software engineering or web development.


Other Requirements

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:

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

Preferred Qualifications

  • Proven track record of successfully delivering software solutions to market in a collaborative environment. Experience with OOP and working in agile development models.
  • Collaboration and leadership skills, with ability to mentor other engineers.
  • Experience building large-scale web sites.
  • Proficiency in ReactJs.
  • Knowledge of the Web UX industry today and experience with Web UX design.
  • Experience with developing architectural and system-level designs for new and existing software components.
  • Experience with major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
  • Experience with DevOps, CI/CD, and delivering large scale production code at a high velocity.
  • Experience with test-driven development and code quality metrics.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 11, 2025

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Responsibilities

This is a broad cross-team role with high visibility, collaborating with multiple teams across Microsoft. As an engineer on the team, you get to contribute to the architecture, design and implementation of Authentication services while optimizing for extremely high scale, throughput, durability, and low latency. You will build delightful user experiences that use a modern framework that enables rapid experimentation and iteration. You will get to innovate and make service deployment and maintenance an efficient well-oiled machine that provides excellent reliability with minimal manual engineer intervention. You will also embody our culture and values


Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.