Software Engineer II
About The Position
Join the Microsoft Shopping team! We deliver smart shopping experiences with personalization, savings, transparency, and convenience, ensuring confidence in every purchase. Microsoft Shopping is your personal shopping companion, empowering customers to shop smarter and discover what they love. By harnessing the power of AI (artificial intelligence), LLMs (large language models) and LLM-based Agents, we are building best-in-class shopping experiences across Bing, MSN, and Edge. If you are passionate about transforming the online shopping experience for millions of users, this role is for you. As a Software Engineer II, you will contribute to the development of robust, distributed services, and performance-optimized systems that support Shopping services. You’ll collaborate with different team members to implement features that enhance platform scalability, data modeling, and workflow automation. 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. Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.
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.
Nice To Haves
- 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, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, 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, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of experience in distributed systems development.
- 2+ years of experience working with microservices.
- #MicrosoftAI
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
- Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
- Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
- Works collaboratively with other platform, infrastructure, application engineers as well as designers/PMs to build next generation shopping products and services.
- Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
Benefits
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
