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Software Engineer II

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond, WAfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Design, develop, and maintain large-scale distributed cloud-native backend services, adhering to modern software-engineering practices to deliver reliable, scalable, and secure systems.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop large-scale distributed software services and solutions.
  • Adhere to and drive modern software-engineering practices through design reviews.
  • Perform system design across well-defined interfaces and multiple components, conduct code reviews, and use data/telemetry to make decisions.
  • Develop best-in-class engineering by ensuring services and components are well-defined, modular, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored, and reusable.
  • Improve test coverage, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
  • Weigh testability, portability, reliability, and maintainability, and know when code is ready to ship.
  • Collaborate leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end customer experiences, focusing on customer/partner needs through a data-driven approach.
  • Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site. Partner with product and engineering teammates to design and develop large-scale distributed software services and solutions.
  • Focus on customer/partner needs through a data-driven approach; troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 2+ years of engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
Last updated Sep 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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