Software Engineer II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Aug 23, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions.The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms,devices,and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. We are hiring a Software Engineer II as part of the Microsofts security team. We foster a culture of growth mindset, excellence, and collaboration that inspires us to create life-changing innovations impacting billions of lives. Join our diverse and talented team and help shape the future of cloud services. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.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.
ResponsibilitiesIn this role, you'll design, build, and operate distributed backend services that form the foundation of Microsoft's cloud platforms and product experiences. You'll focus on developing microservices and infrastructure components that are cloud-native, scalable, secure, and resilient-supporting mission-critical systems. You'll work with modern cloud technologies and service frameworks to deliver high-availability, low-latency services that meet demanding performance and reliability standards. Your work may include service orchestration, API design, telemetry and diagnostics, service-to-service communication, and deployment automation. You'll collaborate with partner teams across Microsoft to ensure seamless integration, operational excellence, and alignment with platform architecture. This is an opportunity to deepen your expertise in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure while contributing to services that power Microsoft's most strategic platforms and customer experiences. Embody our culture and values | |