Microsoft

Software Engineer II

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1 day ago
Redmond, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$102k - $219k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, test, and ship core platform components for engineering teams.
  • Build AI-assisted and agent-based features for troubleshooting, testing, migrations, and operational analysis, and evaluate their results.
  • Work with partner teams to understand engineering problems and turn common needs into self-service platform features.
  • Contribute to automated validation, progressive rollout, observability, and recovery tools.
  • Own features from design through implementation, deployment, ongoing operation, on-call support, and production issue resolution.
  • Collaborate on requirements, technical tradeoffs, code reviews, design reviews, and risk identification.
  • Write clean, well-tested code and share knowledge with the engineering organization.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master's degree with 3+ years of experience, or a bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience building and operating production services or distributed systems.
  • Experience contributing to internal platforms, shared services, or developer tools used by other teams.
  • Hands-on experience integrating large language models or agents into applications or engineering workflows.
  • Familiarity with APIs or workflows usable by human developers and AI agents.
  • Experience with a platform area such as service frameworks, data infrastructure, observability, CI/CD, experimentation, configuration management, or cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience using telemetry, profiling, or production debugging to resolve performance or reliability issues.
  • Experience with migrations, system modernization, prototype-to-production delivery, and end-to-end feature ownership.
  • Ability to break down loosely defined problems into practical technical tasks and communicate technical choices effectively.

Benefits

  • The role may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
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Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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