Software Engineer II

We embrace a startup culture, dreaming big, working hands-on with customers, and building innovative solutions. Our mission is to empower individuals, managers, and leaders to leverage insights for productivity and business resilience in the world of AI evolution.

We are seeking a Software Engineer II with a passion for technology, intellectual curiosity, and a willingness to learn and share. This opportunity allows you to make a broad positive impact using a range of software tools and services, including large-scale interactive data analytics, scalable map-reduce compute, machine learning and AI, LLM models, service and data engineering, security, compliance, and service management. We process hundreds of millions of users and billions of activity signals daily to deliver value to our customers.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Drive detailed design and implementation of a highly scalable distributed, big data and analytics cloud service that serves interactive and intelligent data insights.
• Be a key contributor to delivering a high-quality, highly available service that meets customer SLAs across the globe.
• Drive thinking and improvements for systems and engineering processes with simplicity and maintainability as core tenets.
• Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drive identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform1. 
• Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor, and reuse code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

Embody our 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
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in design and implementation of large-scale cloud services.
• Experience with data analysis and machine learning.

Preferred Qualifications: 

• 3+ years of hands-on software design and coding experience. 
• Knowledge of modern engineering practices like automated deployments with integrated quality gates and experience working with modern version control systems like Git.
• Building extensible and maintainable services that last the test of time.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year. 

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until Octomber 13th, 2025.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic inform