Software Engineer II

Software Engineer II at Microsoft

Overview

Azure Core is responsible for building and operating the foundational infrastructure that powers Microsoft Azure. This includes the platform services that enable compute, networking, storage, and distributed systems to operate reliably and at scale across Microsoft’s global cloud footprint. These services are central to Azure’s control plane and are critical to ensuring platform availability, performance, and customer trust.

As a Software Engineer II within this organization, you will work on developing and operating highly reliable, low-latency platform services that manage persistent, distributed system state. These services are deeply integrated into Azure’s infrastructure and serve as essential components for internal and external workloads that demand strict service letter agreements (SLAs) for durability, availability, and scalability.

This is a high-impact role focused on building foundational platform services for the Azure cloud. You’ll be part of a team that values deep technical expertise, strong execution, and a commitment to delivering secure, scalable, and maintainable systems at global scale.

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.

Responsibilities

• Review and contribute to product and test code ensuring quality, security, compliance, and team standards.
• Write and maintain extensible, reliable, and maintainable code with minimal supervision while escalating blockers as needed.
• Use debugging, telemetry, tests, and logs proactively to verify assumptions and investigate production issues.
• Apply AI tools across the software lifecycle responsibly, and create and execute thorough test strategies to ensure solution quality.
• Collaborate with other teams on design dependencies, contribute to architectural decisions, and help ensure system scalability, performance, and security.
• Follow security, privacy, accessibility, and regulatory compliance best practices and participate in secure deployment and live site operations.
• Support product deployment, monitoring, incident response, telemetry integration, automation, and continuous learning to improve engineering excellence.

Qualifications

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.

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:

• 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.

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Key skills/competency

• Distributed Systems
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Platform Services
• Microsoft Azure
• C++/C#/Java/Python
• Scalability
• High Availability
• System Design
• Telemetry & Debugging
• Incident Response