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FULL_TIME
5-10

Software Engineer II

11/26/2025

The Software Engineer II will be responsible for owning multiple services and architecting them to scale while ensuring high quality through robust unit tests. They will design and implement microservices for real-time, scalable solutions and provide on-call support as part of a DevOps culture.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

10,001+ employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

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
Be responsible for owning multiple services, architecting them to scale, and have robust unit tests to deliver high quality products. Design and implement microservices to enable real time, highly scalable, performant, and sustainable solutions. Stay abreast of new techniques, tools and methodologies used to address the critical developmental areas. Use engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle to establish maintainable, reliable, and secure systems. Manipulate, collate, and analyze complex, high dimensional data from varying sources to solve difficult problems. Work in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection, and growth. Provide on call support and monitor the health of services in production as part of DevOps culture. Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve applications to support the business to drive and enable security across systems. Work closely with business and engineering partners during early SDLC phases to understand the business capabilities and goals for the program. Master's or bachelor's degree in engineering/computer science. 4-8 years of professional software engineering experience designing, developing, and running enterprise applications. Experience in Object Oriented Programming, .NET framework, ASP.NET, MVC, Web API, C#, and SQL Server Programming along with experience in cloud services (Azure/ AWS) Hands-on experience with Windows Server, Active Directory, and SQL Server integration for SCCM infrastructure management and reporting. Good to have experience in the latest versions of scripting languages like React, Angular JS, PowerShell etc. and exposure to TFS/VSO and Git. Familiarity with SOA, distributed systems, and event driven architectures. * Excellent coding skills, strong in OOPS, OOAD, design patterns and their application. Good understanding on security aspects of software like authentication, authorization, encryption, etc. 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. 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). Security and Identity domain experience. Familiarity with Machine Learning and applied AI concepts
Key Skills
Software EngineeringMicroservicesDevOpsC#SQL ServerCloud ServicesObject Oriented ProgrammingASP.NETMVCWeb APIAgile MethodologiesSecurityMachine LearningAI ConceptsScripting LanguagesDistributed Systems
Categories
TechnologySoftwareEngineeringData & Analytics
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