Microsoft

Software Engineer II

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23 hours ago
Redmond, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$102k - $219k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate storage services and resource-provider APIs on Azure Data Lake Storage and Cosmos DB.
  • Own services end to end, including architecture, coding, deployment, on-call operations, live-site health, and postmortems.
  • Partner with engineering teams to onboard scenarios and define platform boundaries.
  • Drive storage tiering, capacity planning, telemetry, cost optimization, and performance engineering.
  • Use AI-assisted development and agentic development loops, and share effective practices with the team and partners.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to pass Microsoft, customer, and 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.
  • Preferred experience includes building and operating distributed services or data platforms in production, with expertise in data structures, concurrency, API design, and distributed systems.
  • Preferred experience includes cloud storage, NoSQL databases, Azure Data Lake Storage, Cosmos DB, Azure Resource Manager-style resource providers, observability, telemetry pipelines, analytics, search or vector retrieval, and AI or agent workloads.
  • Preferred candidates have experience with on-call operations, incident response, reliability or cost improvements, cross-team technical decision-making, and AI-assisted software development.

Benefits

  • U.S. base pay is listed as $102,100–$202,200 per year, with a separate $133,800–$219,200 annual range for specified San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan locations; certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The position is open for a minimum of 5 days and accepts applications on an ongoing basis until filled.

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Microsoft

About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

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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