Software Engineer II
Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, U.S.
Full-Time
Posted Oct 09, 2025
3 days / week in-office
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About the role
Are you ready to make a global impact? Join the Edge Distribution Services (EDS) Web Services team at Microsoft, where we architect and operate the backend web services that help deliver critical software like new Windows features, security patches, and apps to billions of devices worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
- Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
- Creates and implements clean, simple, testable code with a strong emphasis on quality, maintainability, and reuse.
- Collaborates effectively across teams to deliver high-quality solutions from design to implementation and roll out.
- Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
- Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
- Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
- Drives quality improvements through design reviews, code reviews, modeling a growth mindset, and providing clear, constructive feedback.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- Industry leading healthcare
- Educational resources
- Discounts on products and services
- Savings and investments
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Generous time away
- Giving programs
- Opportunities to network and connect
About the Company
Our employees unite with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to achieve shared goals.
Job Details
Salary Range
Salary not disclosed
Location
Redmond, Washington, U.S.
Employment Type
Full-Time
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