Software Engineer II

Any Developer.  Any App.  Any Platform.

Microsoft continues to make big investments to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.  Come join the team responsible for delivering the Visual Studio family of products and Developer Cloud. It's an incredibly rich space with many technical problems begging for well-designed, well-executed and innovative solutions. 

We create modern tools & services that help developers build apps & services for a variety of platforms, including Windows, iOS, Android, Azure and many more. The team builds developer tools (Visual Studio & Visual Studio Code), designs & develops developer experiences for C#, TypeScript (JavaScript), C++ and more.   We also deliver mission critical developer services like Azure DevOps and Azure Lab Services that enable developers to build applications and services using any language and any platform. Our work includes enabling deeper integration with GitHub Copilot and other providers to enable scenarios not possible in any other developer tool.  We are designing new experiences for developers as they adopt new productivity experiences with GitHub Copilot.

In a recent survey done by stackoverflow.com continue to be the most popular development environments & tools.  Azure DevOps is a critical service with over 3 million monthly engaged users worldwide, including every engineer at Microsoft. Our tools & services help a wide spectrum of developers all the way from professional developers to middle school students. 

We create solutions together in a rich, collaborative environment and while we work hard together, work/life balance and having fun are also core values. Make your mark, make an impact, and make our customers the most successful and productive developers in the world!

We are looking for a Software Engineer II to help us deliver additional tools & services to significantly improve developers’ productivity. You will work with program managers to understand customer needs, develop experiences that make them more productive as they work with their team members to develop, deploy, and run their apps & services.

You will work in a collaborative environment to build features in tools & services, ship them to customers frequently and learn from customer feedback. You will build simple and powerful experiences in developer tools, highly scalable cloud services that the tools will connect to, and systems that monitor the health of the services. The software you build will help millions of developers all over the world.

You will become part of a team where learning from peers and growing as a team is a core principle.

We continue to embrace and support remote/hybrid work flexibility. 

Read about and try the most recent releases of the Visual Studio family of products and Developer Cloud here:

Visual Studio: IDE and Code Editor for Software Developers and Teams (microsoft.com)

Azure DevOps Services | Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Dev Box – Dev Workstation in the Cloud | Microsoft Azure

Lab Services | Microsoft Azure

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.

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#, Rust, or Java
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience utilizing and/or contributing to engineering systems, developer tools, and/or software libraries and/or services

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

• 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 Master'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.
• Software design, coding and debugging experience
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment paradigms
• Familiarity with SQL databases and/or NoSQL document stores. Experience with high scale SQL.
• Troubleshooting skills across network, application, caching, queuing, load-balancing storage and distributed services layers 
• Experience using and contributing to Open Source or Inner Source
• 2+ years of experience utilizing and/or contributing to engineering systems, developer tools, and/or software libraries and/or services

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: US corporate pay information | Microsoft Careers

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• Love working with a smart, technical customer base
• Enjoy figuring out difficult technical problems in a foundational space that will affect Visual Studio and Developer Cloud’s ability to deliver on features that target new platforms or provide new experiences
• Like the idea that the code you build & design has one of the most direct correlations to developer satisfaction, and by delivering high quality, performant, AI-powered and elegant experiences you can greatly enhance a developer's day-to-day enjoyment
• Want to be part of a motivated and collaborative engineering team
• Design, implement, debug, and deliver rich developer experiences and services using C#, TypeScript (JavaScript), and/or C++

Embody our Culture and Values