Software Engineer II

Job description

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.

As part of Microsoft’s Cloud + AI (C+AI) organization, our team plays a vital role in strengthening Microsoft’s internal and customer-facing security posture.

We are focused on building solutions that drive continuous security validation, operational resilience, and platform-wide protection—ensuring trust in Microsoft’s services at scale.

Our culture embraces a growth mindset, a pursuit of engineering excellence, and a focus on collaboration and inclusion.

We believe that empowering individuals to bring their best each day leads to innovations that can transform industries and positively impact billions of people around the globe.

We are seeking a Software Engineer II who is passionate about building enterprise-scale solutions and advancing AI-powered security engineering.

In this role, you will deliver secure, scalable, and cost-effective systems while driving improvements in resiliency, automation, and developer experience.

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.

**Responsibilities**

+ Design and implement microservices to enable real time, highly scalable, performant, and sustainable solutions.
+ Deliver automated and well-tested features across different services and platforms.
+ Use engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle to establish maintainable, reliable, and secure systems.
+ Manipulate, collate, and analyse complex, high dimensional data from varying sources to solve difficult problems.
+ Collaborate with teammates in various roles to plan and execute on key deliverables.
+ Work in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection, and growth
+ Learn quickly from your peers, projects, and interactions with customers.
+ Provide on call support and monitor the health of services in production as part of DevOps culture.

**Qualifications**

+ Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field or equivalent work experience
+ 3-8 years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and running cloud services at large scale in C# and .Net.
+ Familiarity with distributed systems and event driven architectures.
+ Deep understanding on security aspects of software like authentication, authorization, encryption, etc.

• Excellent coding skills, strong in OOPS, OOAD, design patterns and their application
+ Ability to both work independently and coordinate across geographies.
+ Ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts to a variety of cross-group stakeholders.
+ Strong organization skills, a bias for action, and ability to deliver results.
+ Proven ability to deal with ambiguity and drive for clarity.
+ Demonstrated ability to work efficiently, prioritize workflow, ramp quickly, and meet demanding deadlines.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

+ Proficient working knowledge of cloud-computing environments like Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP - Azure preferred.


+ Experience with web service development and familiar with related technologies.
+ Familiar with modern security models like OAuth and token-based authentication and authorization.
+ Experience building and shipping production grade software or services.
+ Experience using agile methodologies or test-driven development (TDD).

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.

Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .

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