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Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Microsoft
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
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Listed pay typically runs
$119,800–$234,700
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The Software Engineer II joins the platform engineering team to build the next generation of internal infrastructure designed to simplify software development. You will design, build, and operate production features that improve scalability, performance, observability, and developer experience. Key responsibilities include developing AI-assisted and agent-based features for troubleshooting, testing, and migrations while turning complex infrastructure into easy-to-use capabilities. You will work with partner teams to identify pain points and transform them into self-service tools. The role requires proficiency in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, along with experience in distributed systems, APIs, and telemetry. You will solve technical problems by integrating large language models into engineering workflows to automate repetitive tasks and ensure reliable, secure software delivery.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.
Design, implement, test, and ship platform components that meet the needs of engineering teams.
Build AI-assisted and agent-based features for troubleshooting, testing, migrations, and operational analysis.
Work with partner teams to turn common problems into self-service platform features.
Contribute to automated validation, progressive rollout, observability, and recovery tools.
Deliver well-scoped features from design through implementation, deployment, and ongoing production operation.
Provide on-call support and resolve production issues for owned platform features.
Write clean, well-tested code and participate in code and design reviews.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience).
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Experience building and operating services or distributed systems in production (preferred).
Experience building or contributing to internal platforms, shared services, or developer tools used by other teams (preferred).
Hands-on experience integrating large language models or agents into applications or engineering workflows (preferred).
Experience in at least one platform area such as service frameworks, data infrastructure, observability, CI/CD, or cloud infrastructure (preferred).
Experience using telemetry, profiling, or production debugging to find and fix performance or reliability issues (preferred).
Experience turning a prototype or proof of concept into a production feature (preferred).
Distributed Systems
Large Language Models
Python
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript
C
CI/CD
Observability
API Design
Cloud Infrastructure
Configuration Management
Telemetry
Profiling
Data Management
Concurrency
Production Systems
Platform Engineering
Distributed Systems
Large Language Models
Python
Java
C#
C++
JavaScript
C
CI/CD
Cloud Infrastructure
Observability
API Design
Concurrency
Data Management
Telemetry
Profiling
Platform Engineering
Configuration Management
Service Frameworks
Python
C#
Java
C++
JavaScript
C
LLM
Machine Learning
Distributed Systems
Data Pipelines
APIs
Telemetry
Unit Testing
Integration Testing
Observability
Cloud Services
Data Analytics
Workflow Automation
Python
Go
Java
C++
LLM
Machine Learning
DynamoDB
Terraform
Infrastructure as Code
Version Control
Prompt Engineering
A/B Testing
Information Retrieval
NoSQL