Software Engineer II

Microsoft

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Work type
On-site
Location
Redmond, WAReston, VAJessup, MD
Salary
$102,100–$202,200 / yr
Posted
99 days ago
Closes
Sep 21, 2026

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Similar $152k
This role $152k
$90k most similar roles pay here $214k

This role pays more than 57% of similar roles. Most pay $122,500–$181,725 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $152k versus about $152k for comparable roles.

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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing

Microsoft currently has 382 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Software Engineer II

Join our dynamic team as a Senior Software Engineer where you will design, implement, test, and maintain cloud-scale security-critical services and platform components used in highly regulated environments. You will collaborate closely with partner teams to deliver end-to-end solutions, investigate live-site issues, and participate in 24x7 on-call rotations to ensure service reliability. Your daily tasks include applying secure-by-design principles, conducting threat modeling, and implementing defense-in-depth practices while continuously learning new technologies and expanding your technical ownership. The ideal candidate has experience with languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, and a background in building large-scale production services with robust logging, monitoring, alerting systems to ensure high availability and reliability in cloud environments.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement secure-by-design cloud-scale services for critical environments.
  • Investigate and resolve live-site issues to ensure service reliability and operational excellence.
  • Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations to support service health and incident response.
  • Apply threat modeling and defense-in-depth practices throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Collaborate with security, operations, and compliance teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent)
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field required
  • Experience building and supporting large-scale production services with logging, monitoring, alerting
  • Expertise in security disciplines like event collection, monitoring, detection engineering, vulnerability management in cloud environments
  • Strong operational excellence demonstrated through live-site issue resolution and 24x7 on-call support
  • Apply secure-by-design principles including threat modeling and defense-in-depth practices throughout development lifecycle

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