Software Engineer II

Microsoft•Redmond, WA

2d•$102,100 - $202,200

About The Position

The Cloud & AI 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. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. The Security of MSRC team exists to raise the security bar to the highest standard for MSRC tooling and operations, across the systems and workflows that handle vulnerability intelligence. In this role, you will help transform MSRC’s vulnerability management ecosystem into a unified, secure, resilient platform by implementing advanced security controls (including MFA and Zero Trust principles), strengthening information protection protocols, improving monitoring and response, and supporting consolidation of security case management onto IcM as the secure system of record. We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join the team! 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

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.
Candidates must be able 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.

Nice To Haves

Fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and debugging.
Design, build, and operate distributed services and microservices on Azure (App Service, AKS, Functions, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL).
Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, GitHub workflows, and infrastructure-as-code.
Experience with Kubernetes, event-driven architectures, or high-throughput data pipelines.
Agent-first: Design and ship agentic systems (tool-calling, RAG, multi-step reasoning) with Semantic Kernel or LangChain, optim
Experience designing and consuming REST APIs and working with relational and/or NoSQL data stores.
Own features end-to-end: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and live-site support.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate distributed services and microservices on Azure (App Service, AKS, Functions, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL).
Own features end-to-end: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and live-site support.
Integrate AI capabilities such as natural language processing, semantic search, and intelligent agents using frameworks like Azure OpenAI, Semantic Kernel, or equivalent.
Drive performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency through telemetry, asynchronous I/O, and system profiling.
Ensure robust data validation, schema enforcement, and compliance with privacy and security standards.
Collaborate across disciplines to define technical requirements, review designs, and deliver high-quality software.
Participate in an on-call rotation; investigate and resolve live-site incidents, and drive root-cause fixes that improve reliability.
Contribute to our DevOps culture: CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, telemetry, and safe deployment practices.