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Software Engineer II

Microsoft

Microsoft

Software Engineering
USD 100,600-199k / year
Posted on Aug 1, 2025

Software Engineer II

Redmond, Washington, United States

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Date posted
Jul 30, 2025
Job number
1849337
Work site
Up to 100% work from home
Travel
0-25 %
Role type
Individual Contributor
Profession
Software Engineering
Discipline
Software Engineering
Employment type
Full-Time

Overview

We are building the Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud (IC3). We power Microsoft’s first-party real-time conversation products, notably Teams with many millions of users, by providing reliable and high-quality audio and video calling, meetings, and chat services that work every time, from anywhere, on any device. And we expose our core capabilities to third-party partners, with which they can bring conversations to life in their own products. With IC3, we will enable customers to do more by making conversations on our platform more intelligent, surfacing useful information in real-time and taking actions on the customers’ behalf during the conversation. And, we will learn from each conversation. Every call, meeting, or chat will make the next one better.

Building and running services at scale for Microsoft 365 for hundreds of million consumer and enterprise users is very challenging, but it is a lot of fun and rewarding. We are looking for a Software Engineer II at many levels to help us do just that to power and deliver on IC3 mission. This opportunity will allow you to make a broad positive impact across many critical IC3 domains such as chat, audio/video calling, meetings, service and data engineering, and service management.

We want you because you have an insatiable passion for technology, your constant intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn, your ability to communicate well in a team environment, your desire to make our team better with your contributions and of course your ability to deliver the right results at the right time.

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 industrial experiences in software development preferably. in real-time media development.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Hands-on experience with real time communication protocols like RTP/SRTP/RTCP.
  • Hands-on experience with streaming protocols like HLS/DASH.
  • Hands-on experience with WebRTC stack.
  • Hands-on experience with application of big data, machine learning techniques to improve systems.
  • Practitioner of the latest engineering methodologies; Unit testing, TDD, Agile etc.
  • Excellent C++ and C skills.
  • Experience with programming for networking, multi-threaded systems, and/or real time media.
  • Good understanding of system software including OS and networking.

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 August 5th, 2025.

#M365CORE

Responsibilities

  • The IC3 media team is responsible for the research and development of the core real time media stack components enabling the Teams family products to work across the variety of platforms as well as enabling highly scalable media servers running in the cloud.
  • We are looking for a talented developer with an interest and potentials in building highly reliable and scalable network services, highly dependable mission critical meeting/calling products as well as applying large data and machine learning techniques for competitive innovations.
  • You will be designing and implementing the client and server media streaming/communication components, interfacing with other teams to improve and extend existing functionalities, analyzing production telemetry for areas of improvements, and working with the partner teams on improvements in testing and benchmarking the core media services.

Embody our culture and values


Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.