Software Engineer
Microsoft
Software Engineer II
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Overview
Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security 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.
We’re seeking a forward-thinking, AI-proficient Software Engineer to design, deliver, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly usable UX applications. You’ll apply UX and software development best practices, use multiple UX component libraries, best of breed tooling, and – above all else – teamwork and collaboration to deliver applications that help our users monitor, detect, and auto-remediate fraud and risk across Microsoft. Your AI-proficiency will enable you to iterate quickly, prototype new ideas, and make large changes across codebases by guiding CoPilot and reviewing its output. You’ll optimize our applications, review and design mocks, and keep a forward-thinking mindset when encountering new problems in our space. You’ll take pride in code quality, test and process automation, and staying on the forefront of UX frameworks and infrastructure to deliver the best value to our customers and the company. We are the Central Fraud and Abuse Risk (CFAR) organization’s UX team, powered by innovation and risk intelligence, protecting Microsoft and its customers from fraud and risk abuse daily.
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 building scalable, efficient, and reliable cloud services.
- 1+ year of experience with systems design, architecture, and writing unit tests and integration/end to end tests
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:
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, C, C++, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, C, C++, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of experience building scalable, efficient, and reliable cloud services.
- Experience with systems design, architecture, and unit and integration testing.
- Experience working with mocking tools like Figma, Balsamiq, etc.
- Experience working with cloud computing platforms like Azure, AWS.
- Experience with containers, including Kubernetes, Docker, service mesh etc.
- Understanding of code coverage, data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded, asynchronous programming patterns and solving complex problems, inclination for architecting at scale.
- Proficiency in Agile processes using GitHub, Copilot and/or Azure DevOps Service.
- Deep understanding of LLMs, Agentic AI frameworks, and orchestration patterns for autonomous systems.
- Familiarity with AIOps practices, including anomaly detection, observability, and auto-remediation strategies.
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 November 4th, 2025.
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Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Design, deliver, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly usable UX applications using modern tooling including bundlers like Vite and Webpack, frameworks like React and Angular, state libraries like zod and mobx, UI frameworks like Fluent v9, and testing frameworks like Playwright and React Testing Library.
- Design, deliver, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly usable APIs using modern tooling including C#, Cosmos DB, Orleans and more.
- Mentor other engineers in AI-first development and share knowledge in the UX space (tooling, infra, frameworks, security, and so on).
- Use Azure infrastructure – like Frontdoor, Application Gateway, CDNs, App Insights, AKS, and App Services – and automation to securely build and deploy apps.
- Rethink and redesign applications to take advantage of Agentic workflows to decrease time to resolution and improve user experiences.
- Work closely with data scientists and backend engineers to identify data flows and API contracts and drive projects to completion across the stack.
- Bring software engineering habits and produce high-quality code that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly.
- Collaborate with colleagues including product owners, User Experience (UX) designers, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) Engineers/Researchers, data scientists, and other engineers to create delightful and meaningful experiences for our customers.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership: architecture, design, code reviews, development, Quality Assurance (QA), and live site support for mission-critical services to ensure high availability, scalability, and resiliency.
- Live Microsoft’s leadership principles and adopt growth mindset.
- Uphold Microsoft’s company values of Respect, Accountability, and Integrity.