Microsoft

Software Engineer 2 - FDE

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3 days ago
Tokyo, JapanMid Level
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Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, test, maintain, and ship production software, services, applications, and tools.
  • Partner directly with customer stakeholders to understand requirements, create technical designs, and deliver solutions against agreed success metrics.
  • Apply secure coding, threat modeling, vulnerability management, privacy, compliance, and responsible AI practices.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, data scientists, and domain experts to make tradeoffs and drive alignment.
  • Participate in on-call and incident response, diagnose issues, perform root-cause analysis, and improve reliability.
  • Create reusable components, reference implementations, and documentation for future customer engagements.
  • Share best practices and improve engineering velocity, quality, and customer outcomes.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Experience partnering directly with customers or internal stakeholders to deliver solutions end to end.
  • Fluency in Japanese and English.
  • Preferred: master’s degree and 3+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: experience designing, deploying, and operating AI or LLM-based solutions, including prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented approaches, model tuning, evaluation, data quality, performance monitoring, and cloud AI platforms.
  • Willingness and ability to travel up to 25%.

Categories

Forward Deployed
Microsoft

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10,000+ employees

Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.

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