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Software Engineer II

Microsoft

Microsoft

Software Engineering
Redmond, WA, USA
USD 100,600-199k / year
Posted on Mar 21, 2026
Overview

Overview

Make a difference protecting government assets! The Machine Learning Engine team leverages various Machine Learning technologies to analyze payloads at scale and near real time.

As a Software Engineer II on the MLE team, you will be responsible for making changes to ensure we have a scalable, reliable, and performant service. This opportunity will allow you to demonstrate a habit of writing testable code and unit tests featuring mocking, refactoring to well-known OOP design patterns. This role will involve adding automation, alerting, and monitoring to ensure the health of our service while working with others on the team to drive meaningful improvements to availability and latency of our services. You will also be responsible for curating deployment processes and scripts.

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 psychological safety where everyone can thrive at work.



Responsibilities
Key responsibilities include:
- Design and implement changes to ensure the service is scalable, reliable, and performant
- Write testable, maintainable code with strong unit test coverage, including mocking
- Refactor code using well-known object-oriented design patterns
- Add and maintain automation, alerting, and monitoring to ensure service health
- Collaborate with the team to improve service availability and reduce latency
- Own and curate deployment processes and deployment scripts


Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, systems engineering, or industrial controls
    • OR equivalent experience.

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, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or related field AND 3+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, systems engineering, or industrial controls OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or related field AND 5+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, service engineering, systems engineering, or industrial controls OR equivalent experience.
  • 1+ year(s) technical experience working with large-scale cloud or distributed systems.
  • Experience working on projects to improve the quality of large scale services.
  • Acts 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.
  • Curates deployment processes and scripts.
  • Architects and Implements software systems to solve a variety of problems.
  • Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.



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


This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.




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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.