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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. Our services are the backbone of secure software distribution, ensuring that customers everywhere receive critical updates and new features reliably and safely. The scale and reach of our work are unmatched, our mission is to keep the world's devices secure and up to date.

As a Software Engineer II on our team, you will be at the forefront of designing, implementing, and optimizing these performant and massively scalable services. You'll be involved in all phases of the lifecycle, from design to deployment and support. This role is your chance to accelerate your career growth and refine your technical skills by working at world-scale.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our employees unite with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to achieve shared goals. Every day, we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive both at work and beyond.

Responsibilities

• Work with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Contribute to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Create and implement clean, simple, testable code with emphasis on quality, maintainability, and reuse.
• Collaborate effectively across teams to deliver quality solutions from design to implementation and roll out.
• Contribute to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Act 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.
• Remain current in skills by investing time and effort into 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.
• Embody the Microsoft culture and values .
  
  

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.
• 2+ years experience designing, developing, testing, and rolling out web services utilizing technologies including, but not limited to, C#, PowerShell, and ASP.NET.
  
  

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

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., C++, C#, Java, Python).
• Design, coding, problem solving, analytical and communication skills.
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Adept at learning and adapting to new technologies and tools, with a focus on distributed systems.
  
  

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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 19, 2025.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .

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