Software Engineer II

The Cloud & AI 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 is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world.

The Security of MSRC team exists to raise the security bar to the highest standard for MSRC tooling and operations, across the systems and workflows that handle vulnerability intelligence. In this role, you will help transform MSRC’s vulnerability management ecosystem into a unified, secure, resilient platform by implementing advanced security controls (including MFA and Zero Trust principles), strengthening information protection protocols, improving monitoring and response, and supporting consolidation of security case management onto IcM as the secure system of record.

We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join the team!

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

• Design, build, and operate distributed services and microservices on Azure (App Service, AKS, Functions, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL).
• Own features end-to-end: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and live-site support.
• Integrate AI capabilities such as natural language processing, semantic search, and intelligent agents using frameworks like Azure OpenAI, Semantic Kernel, or equivalent.
• Drive performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency through telemetry, asynchronous I/O, and system profiling.
• Ensure robust data validation, schema enforcement, and compliance with privacy and security standards.
• Collaborate across disciplines to define technical requirements, review designs, and deliver high-quality software.
• Participate in an on-call rotation; investigate and resolve live-site incidents, and drive root-cause fixes that improve reliability.
• Contribute to our DevOps culture: CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, telemetry, and safe deployment practices. 

Required Qualfications:

• 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. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and debugging.
• Design, build, and operate distributed services and microservices on Azure (App Service, AKS, Functions, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL).
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, GitHub workflows, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience with Kubernetes, event-driven architectures, or high-throughput data pipelines.
• Agent-first: Design and ship agentic systems (tool-calling, RAG, multi-step reasoning) with Semantic Kernel or LangChain, optim
• Experience designing and consuming REST APIs and working with relational and/or NoSQL data stores.
• Own features end-to-end: requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and live-site support.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 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

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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 with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.