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Software Engineer II

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 Oct 2025

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

About the role

Are you ready to make a global impact? Join the Edge Distribution Services (EDS) Web Services team at Microsoft, where we architect and operate the backend web services that help deliver critical software like new Windows features, security patches, and apps to billions of devices worldwide. Our services are the backbone of secure software distribution, ensuring that customers everywhere receive critical updates and new features reliably and safely. The scale and reach of our work are unmatched, our mission is to keep the world’s devices secure and up to date.

As a Software Engineer II on our team, you will be at the forefront of designing, implementing, and optimizing these performant and massively scalable services. You’ll be involved in all phases of the lifecycle, from design to deployment and support. This role is your chance to accelerate your career growth and refine your technical skills by working at world-scale.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our employees unite with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to achieve shared goals. Every day, we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive both at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

Work with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
Contribute to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
Create and implement clean, simple, testable code with emphasis on quality, maintainability, and reuse.
Collaborate effectively across teams to deliver quality solutions from design to implementation and roll out.
Contribute to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
Remain current in skills by investing time and effort into current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
Drives quality improvements through design reviews, code reviews, modeling a growth mindset, and providing clear, constructive feedback.
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 limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python