Software Engineer II

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

10d

About The Position

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. 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.
We build the front‑end experiences that empower millions of Entra/IAM end users to securely access their resources, complete self‑service tasks with confidence, and help their admins operate more efficiently. Our mission is to deliver intuitive, reliable, and high‑impact user experiences that improve productivity across the Microsoft identity ecosystem.

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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of experience with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern front‑end frameworks such as React.
• Experience building and shipping production‑grade web applications at scale.
• Solid understanding of web fundamentals (HTML, CSS, DOM, accessibility, responsive design).
• Experience designing, integrating, and debugging RESTful APIs or distributed backend services.
• Proficient problem‑solving, debugging, and engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, code quality).
• Experience with unit/integration testing, version control, and CI/CD workflows.
• Proven ability to design, implement, and own features end‑to‑end with minimal supervision.
• Communication and collaboration skills; able to work effectively with PM, Design, and partner engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• As an SDE2 on the End‑User Experience team, you will design and build the core front‑end surfaces that millions of users rely on to manage their identity, access, and self‑service workflows across Microsoft Entra.
• You’ll own end‑to‑end features from architecture to UX implementation focusing on performance, accessibility, security, and delightful user interactions.
• This role is a great fit if you enjoy solving customer-facing problems, simplifying complex IAM scenarios, and driving measurable improvements in productivity for both end users.
• You will collaborate closely with designers, PMs, and backend engineers to deliver high-quality, scalable, and secure experiences that define how customers engage with identity at Microsoft.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level