Security 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. **Responsibilities** In 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 **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 of professional experience designing and developing distributed backend services using microservice architecture in cloud environments (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP) + 1+ year contributing to the development or operation of scalable infrastructure or platform services that support high availability and reliability in production environments **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:** + Master'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 Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. + 4+ years of professional experience designing and developing distributed backend services using microservice architecture in cloud environments (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP) + 2+ years of experience in the development or operation of scalable infrastructure or platform services that support high availability and reliability in production environments 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 September 5, 2025. **\#MSFTSecurity** 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) .