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Software Engineer II - Windows Servicing and Delivery

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Oct 2025

💰 $215,400/yr($100,600/yr – $215,400/yr)

About the role

You have the power to shape the Windows experience for billions of people worldwide. In Windows Servicing and Delivery (WSD), you’ll help keep every Windows device secure, reliable, and productive by delivering updates that just work. You’ll be part of the team that builds the intelligent infrastructure behind seamless upgrades—combining automation, AI, and user control to make Windows servicing faster, smarter, and more dependable than ever.

As a Software Engineer II on the Global Build (GBLD) team, you’ll design and build intelligent systems that support the latest Windows releases in our Build and Packaging pipeline, driving automation, scalability, and speed. This role offers hands-on experience with Azure-native services—including Logic Apps, Durable Functions, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, and Azure Storage—while leveraging modern CI/CD practices. You’ll harness the power of AI to transform existing workflows into AI-driven, predictive systems that optimize reliability and accelerate delivery. If you’re passionate about pushing boundaries, learning cutting-edge tech, and shaping the Windows experience for billions, we’d love to have you on our team!

At Microsoft, our mission is simple yet bold: empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. You’ll join a community that thrives on a growth mindset, where innovation and collaboration fuel shared success.

Responsibilities

Partner with stakeholders to translate user needs into clear requirements, dependencies, and technical designs for features.
Design, implement, test, and ship features for the Windows Build systems, reusing components where appropriate to improve quality, reliability, and throughput.
Deeply understand Windows build and servicing systems—especially GBLD’s build start and code movement flows within WSD—to efficiently support the latest Windows releases.
Break down work into well‑estimated tasks, contribute to quarterly planning, and deliver via modern CI/CD with strong telemetry and observability.
Raise the bar on availability, reliability, performance, and operability at scale; design resilient, secure components and remediate vulnerabilities proactively.
Continuously learn and apply the latest AI and the Microsoft Copilot Platform technology to design agentic workflows that transform existing services into agentic, self‑optimizing systems, in partnership with teams across WSD and Windows.
Monitor retail and continuous deployment releases, rapidly diagnose and mitigate issues, and drive post‑incident learning and automation.

Embody the Microsoft culture and values .

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 l