Microsoft Software Engineer II 

Taiwan, Taoyuan City 

288591297

Microsoft Defender requires robust, reliable, and efficient engineering systems to support a high performance team. Engineering Systems for MDE Client teams include the build systems that produce our products and the test infrastructure to validate our projects. We work closely with our partner product teams to make sure their needs are met, while also applying requirements upon them to ensure they are delivering high quality products to our customers.

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.

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.

• Experience working with Azure DevOps pipelines
• Experience developing in PowerShell
• Experience maintaining large Engineering Systems projects, including build and test infrastructure

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 April 10, 2025.

We are looking for a Software Engineer with experiences working with all client aspects of large build and test infrastructure. This requires the ability to design components carefully, properly handle errors, write clean and well-factored code with good tests and good maintainability.Responsibilities include:

• Developing and maintaining CMake build infrastructure
• Developing and extending PowerShell automation for test functionality
• Creating and debugging template-driven test definitions
• Maintaining automated ADO task management systems
• Optimizing pipeline execution
• Managing Azure resources