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Software Engineer II

Microsoft

Microsoft

Software Engineering
USD 100,600-199k / year
Posted on Aug 26, 2025

Software Engineer II

Redmond, Washington, United States

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Date posted
Aug 25, 2025
Job number
1862454
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

Are you interested in working for one of the most exciting product groups in Microsoft? Look no further than Microsoft Teams Developer Platform. You will be building solutions that leverage state-of-the-art technologies to deliver the next evolution in collaboration and teamwork.


Microsoft Teams Developer Platform provides exciting opportunities in building resilient, highly scalable services for Microsoft Teams Graph APIs and great Microsoft Teams Developer Experience that meet the needs of an ever growing user and developer base of the fastest growing product in Microsoft's history. This is a unique opportunity to hone your systems design, hyperscale services, public API platform design, exposure to cutting edge technology stack (.NET Core, Kubernetes, Redis, Azure Cosmos DB) and application architecture skills offering E2E ownership and broad scope to have a huge impact.

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 working on large scale cloud applications.

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 Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Develop test plans/cases, conditions, and scenarios in support of ongoing applications and infrastructure.
  • Familiar with Agile/Scrum/Lean Methodology.
  • Familiar with massive scale services and adding features to service operating at massive scale
  • Strong analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills.
  • Ability to deal with the ambiguity associated with working in a fast-paced and changing environment.

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 September 8, 2025.

Responsibilities

  • Implement efficient patterns to call dependent services, leverage a combination of multiple storage solutions like Redis, CosmosDB in a harmonious efficient way.
  • Implement high availability, resiliency patterns like Circuit Breaker, Retry, Fallback, Bulkhead Isolation, Throttling among others.
  • Own and operate services of massive scale used by 100s of millions of users.
  • Build features for Teams APIs on Microsoft Graph covering aspects of security, compliance and powering powerful scenarios like automation, provisioning, admin, external integrations and 3rd party tools.

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.