Software Engineer II

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, deploy, and maintain well-scoped software components for AI-powered data platform infrastructure.
• Build scalable, high-performance services, frameworks, pipelines, APIs, analytics, and automation over large datasets.
• Process service data, telemetry, metadata, configuration, and workflow outputs for AI/ML and LLM-enabled platform experiences.
• Contribute to signal analysis, intelligent summarization, workflow automation, service insights, and evidence generation capabilities.
• Collaborate with senior engineers, principal engineers, and partner teams to integrate components into OIC and Substrate systems.
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, documentation, testing, monitoring, dashboards, diagnostics, and recurring-issue remediation.
• Apply data privacy, responsible AI, security, compliance, and operational-readiness standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
• Preferred: master’s degree and 3+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with cloud services, distributed systems, data pipelines, telemetry processing, or large-scale data systems is preferred.
• Experience with AI, machine learning, LLM-based workflows, data analytics, service intelligence, automation, time-series data, or production engineering systems is preferred.
• Experience with unit testing, integration testing, code reviews, observability, secure coding, and operational readiness is preferred.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
• Ability to deliver well-scoped feature work and contribute to small- to medium-sized projects.

Benefits

• The role includes Microsoft benefits and other compensation eligibility as applicable.
• The position is based in Redmond, Washington, with location-specific base pay ranges for the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the position open for a minimum of five days.