Microsoft

Software Engineer II

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6 days ago
Redmond, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$102k - $202k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and operate highly scalable distributed services for AI-driven communications and collaboration experiences.
  • Develop platforms that derive insights and semantic understanding from voice, video, screen sharing, and meeting interactions.
  • Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, designers, and partner engineering teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.
  • Contribute to system architecture and technical design with emphasis on scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
  • Use AI technologies, agentic workflows, and cloud services to create intelligent enterprise experiences.
  • Improve service health through observability, automation, incident response, and operational excellence.
  • Participate in design and code reviews and contribute to engineering excellence and continuous learning.
  • Own features and components from design and implementation through production deployment, operations, and customer impact.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and at least 2 years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Coding experience in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Preferred: master’s degree with at least 3 years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree with at least 5 years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: experience with large-scale distributed systems, cloud services, enterprise platforms, reliable and observable production services, AI/ML, LLMs, agentic systems, NLP, speech technologies, real-time communications, prompt engineering, evaluation strategies, model hosting, and media services.
  • Preferred: ability to solve problems amid ambiguity, drive technical decisions, collaborate across teams, and influence technical direction.

Benefits

  • The position is based in Redmond, Washington and requires working in the office at least 3 days per week.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Categories

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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