Software Engineer II

11/26/2025

As a Software Engineer II, you will own the development lifecycle of your features, from design to monitoring in production. You will collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and contribute to design documentation.

Salary

85000 - 166800 CAD

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

10,001+ employees

Language

English

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About The Company

Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.

About the Role

- As a developer, you will own the development lifecycle of your features. You will come up with the software design and execution plans for your features, implement, test and merge your code, and monitor your features once they deploy to production. - You will work with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a your features. - You will contribute to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area and review them with appropriate stakeholders and incorporate their feedback. - You will create and implement code for a service or feature, reusing code as applicable. - You will contribute to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provide estimates. - You will act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor our service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gain approval to restore the service by following troubleshooting guides. - You will learn about and stay abreast of the implications of privacy, security, compliance and responsible AI requirements with guidance from your technical leaders. - During implementation, you will code with diagnosability, reliability, and maintainability in mind and ship your code alongside appropriate test automation. You will learn about and apply best practices in coding patterns wherever possible. - You will use feature rollout flags to enable new features and experimentation (e.g. A/B testing) to evaluate features in production. Required Qualifications: - 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. Preferred Qualifications: - 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. Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $85,000 - CAD $166,800 per year.

Key Skills

Software DesignCodingTestingMonitoringTroubleshootingPrivacySecurityComplianceAI RequirementsReliabilityMaintainabilityTest AutomationFeature RolloutA/B TestingC++JavaPython