Microsoft Software Development Engineer II 

United States, Washington 

179453879

Required/Minimum 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 cloud service experience including, but not limited to Azure, GCP, and AWS.
• 1+ years of experience in data analysis in systems including, but not limited to security data management, logging, or monitoring solutions.
• 1+ years of experience building software systems, with a focus on large-scale, distributed platforms.
• 1+ years of experience working with high-scale, mission-critical SaaS products, including service operations.

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 background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Additional or Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor'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 Master'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.
• 2+ years of cloud service experience including, but not limited to Azure, GCP, and AWS.
• 2+ years familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• 2+ years of experience building software systems, with a focus on large-scale, distributed platforms.
• 2+ years’ Experience working with high-scale SaaS products, including service operations.
• Knowledge of data processing frameworks such as Spark, Hadoop, or similar technologies.
• Experience with security data management, logging, or monitoring solutions.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 3, 2025.

As a Software Development Engineer II, you will:

• Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions.
• Deliver novel and innovative features for detecting and blocking accounts, applications and other entities indulging in fraudulent activities towards our users and services.
• Be building and leveraging reputation models for entities.
• Have the opportunity to design and integrate machine learning models in production systems to identify and block abuse patterns to deliver real-time and near-real time protection.
• Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews.
• System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.
• Develop engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
• Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.
• Collaborate with teams across Microsoft to deliver customer-facing features.
• Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.
• Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
• Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability and monitoring for LiveSite.
• Debug issues in production and respond to them quickly to mitigate customer impact.