Software Engineer II
Microsoft
Software Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Overview
We embrace a startup culture, dreaming big, working hands-on with customers, and building innovative solutions. Our mission is to empower individuals, managers, and leaders to leverage insights for productivity and business resilience in the world of AI evolution.
We seek individuals with a love for technology, intellectual curiosity, and a willingness to learn and share. As a Software Engineer II you will have the opportunity to make a broad positive impact using a range of software tools and services, including large-scale interactive data analytics, scalable map-reduce compute, machine learning and AI, LLM models, service and data engineering, security, compliance, and service management. We process hundreds of millions of users and billions of activity signals daily to deliver value to our customers.
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, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- Experience with data analysis and machine learning.
Other Requirements:
- Citizenship & Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of U.S. citizenship due to citizenship- based legal restrictions. Specifically, this position supports United states federal, state, and/or local(or applicable country) United States government agency customers and is subject to certain citizenship-based restrictions where required or permitted by applicable law. To meet this legal requirement, citizenship will be verified via a valid passport.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Knowledge of modern engineering practices like automated deployments with integrated quality gates and experience working with modern version control systems like Git.
- Demonstrated depth and experience in design and implementation of large-scale cloud services.
- Building extensible and maintainable services that last the test of time.
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 18th, 2025.
Responsibilities
- Drive detailed design and implementation of a highly scalable distributed, big data and analytics cloud service that serves interactive and intelligent data insights.
- Be a key contributor to delivering a high-quality, highly available service that meets customer SLAs across the globe.
- Drive thinking and improvements for systems and engineering processes with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets.
- Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
- Drive identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform1.
- Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).