Software Engineer 2

Data Privacy has never been more top of mind than it is today. Governments around the world are passing new privacy legislation at a fast pace, and companies are investing in many aspects of data compliance to meet these new regulations. There is a significant opportunity here to empower every company to deliver data privacy solutions that meet these regulations and that build customer trust. If you are looking for an opportunity to move the needle on data privacy, then the Microsoft Security Platform, Data Governance and Privacy (SPDGP) team is the right place for you. Within SPDGP, the Data Privacy Platform (DPP) team has been providing internal data privacy products for all Microsoft since 2018, operating these products at high scale and availability. We build reliable, highly scalable, highly performing, and distributed systems for scanning, cataloging, classification, and DSR processing. Our job is to provide privacy infrastructure, to produce meaningful insights about compliance, and to create understandable actions that can be taken to improve. We are leveraging this experience to create new data privacy products to benefit Microsoft and later all our customers. There is a steady stream of new requirements for both our internal and external partners that is creating exciting opportunities to work at high scale, impact, and visibility. Reasons to join our team: Autonomy in driving major feature areas. High visibility within the company. Significant business impact due to the mission-critical nature of the service. Cutting-edge technologies, including Spark, Kubernetes, and .NET 7. A collaborative and supportive work culture. Responsibilities: We are looking a Softwar Enginer 2 with a track record of success, who deliver results, and who preferably have a background in large-scale systems. Everyone on the team owns significant areas of the system, directly contributes to the vision, direction, and implementation of new features, and are key to the success of our products. You will collaborate on your designs across our partner engineering teams and work closely with our Product Managers to design, build, and maintain a growing set of features that will serve the needs of our customers. This presents an opportunity to leverage your expertise in building and operating high-scale distributed services in the cloud. Collaboration with stakeholders, disciplines, and architects will be key to delivering an exceptional product to our partners and customers. Embrace this significant challenge and join us in creating a remarkable impact. Responsibilities include: building and shipping production grade software or services building and operating online services and fault-tolerant distributed systems creating and shipping V1 products using modern development practices using agile methodologies or test-driven development (TDD) work closely with partners/customers/PM team on requirements and estimates

Responsibilities include: building and shipping production grade software or services building and operating online services and fault-tolerant distributed systems creating and shipping V1 products using modern development practices using agile methodologies or test-driven development (TDD) work closely with partners/customers/PM team on requirements and estimates

Required/Minimum 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. 

Other Requirements: Ability 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. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience with distributed systems delivering large-scale, secure, and resilient cloud services
• Experience building and shipping production grade software or services. 
• Experience building and operating online services and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
• Experience creating and shipping V1 products using modern development practices.
• Experience using agile methodologies or test-driven development (TDD).
• Great curiosity and willingness to question.
• High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, self-motivation, and resourcefulness in a fast-paced environment.
• Love the next problem, the next experiment, the next partner. • Have a deep desire to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes.
• Get excited by the challenge of hard technical problems.
• Solve problems by always leading with deep passion and empathy for customers.
• Experience with Azure resources is an advantage. 
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems. 

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until January 2nd 2026

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Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.

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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.