Software Engineer II

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. 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 Graph is the gateway to data and intelligence in Microsoft 365. It provides a unified programmability model that one can use to access the tremendous amount of data in Microsoft 365, Windows, and Enterprise Mobility + Security. Developers around the globe use the wealth of data in Microsoft Graph to build apps and automation for organizations and consumers that interact with billions of users that use Microsoft 365 products for work, school, and personal productivity. Our team manages the Microsoft Graph API gateway and routing service, which processes millions of requests per second on a global scale for billions of users and supports tens of thousands of APIs from various workloads. This mission-critical service requires high performance, low latency, and exceptional availability (99.999%). Our responsibilities include driving API design patterns, enabling sophisticated data and operation orchestration, centralizing security enforcement, enhancing observability, and meeting compliance and privacy requirements. Additionally, we provide Layer 7 proxy capabilities with a strong emphasis on protocol compatibility, DDoS protection, and minimizing last-mile latency.

We are looking to hire a Software Engineer II who is passionate about building distributed, highly available and secure services as well as who deeply cares about developer experience and attention to details. We are looking for passionate people with experiences working with all service aspects of high throughput and multi-tenant services, ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability.  Join our team and help enable developers build experiences for their end users to be more productive.

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#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience
• 1+ years of professional experience in core software engineering building large-scale distributed systems

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:

• Practical experience operating high-scale services in production environments.
• Prior experience with performance analysis and optimization of web services and software.
• Prior experience building services which run on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
• Expertise in object-oriented language skills and experience in writing high-performance, thread-safe code that allows for serving requests in sub-millisecond times.
• Experience with API development frameworks such as OData, GraphQL, gRPC.

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: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay     

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 31st, 2024. 

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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• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions
• Troubleshoot and optimize test automation, reliability, performance, and monitoring for production services - Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews
• Collaborate with mentors and leaders to gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses -
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach

Other:

• Embody our culture and values