Software Engineer II
Microsoft
Software Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Overview
he Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world
The M365 Security team focuses on access control and protection solutions for Microsoft cloud infrastructure. We are seeking a Software Engineer II for our team. In this role, you will be responsible for building and maintaining services responsible for access control for Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. We own the solutions that manage secure and compliant access to the cloud infrastructure for service deployment, troubleshooting and analysis. We contribute directly to Microsoft runs on trust mission protecting customer data and privacy. We build and leverage advanced technologies in access control, authentication, authorization and secret management space.
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.
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
- 2+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems on platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP, or comparable cloud environments, with production ownership and CI/CD pipeline integration.
- 2+ years of experience integrating with RESTful APIs and managing asynchronous data using tools like AJAX, Fetch, Axios, or equivalent, including experience with Node.js or similar environments for client-server integration, tooling, or testing.
Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check. This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter
- Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years of experience with Azure
- Experince with access control and protection solutions
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 July 23, 2025
Responsibilities
- Design and develop large scale full stack solutions to meet design specifications on time and per plan.
- Develop code to complete designs and test interfaces that solve classes of problems, enable integration across groups of components, improve reuse, and satisfy business, customer, engineering, and operational requirements.
- Adhere to modern engineering practices, effective coding, writing unit test cases, debugging, code reviewing and creating CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipelines.
- Conduct testing and code reviews to ensure quality code is released to production systems.
- Build functional and technical documentation.
- Identify and triage bugs, develop fixes to code defects.
- Embody our culture and values