Back End Software Engineer II

Job description

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.

**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.

The **Graph Experiences team, part of the broader Entra Programmability and Microsoft Graph Platform area,** is responsible for securing and scaling Microsoft’s API ecosystem.This team plays a critical role in ensuring secure, resilient, and developer-friendly access to Microsoft Graph APIs—empowering both internal and external partners to create impactful, AI-powered solutions across the Microsoft ecosystem.

The team also builds and maintains advanced telemetry pipelines that provide deep visibility into API usage, health signals, and operational anomalies.

Our mission is rooted in operational excellence, continuous learning, and a collaborative spirit.

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.

This **flexible work position** is located at our Microsoft office in **Redmond, Washington** .

Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates will need to relocate or reside within 50 miles of the field location.



**Responsibilities**

+ Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
+ Follows best practices for product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and security promises.
+ Understands and applies security best practices and establishes code invariants to model security as code, ensuring each layer is independently secure, and minimizing risk with minimal supervision.

+ Understands the importance of building solutions that expand upon the work of others.

Contributes to the refinement of product features by escalating findings from analyses to inform decisions regarding the engineering of products.
+ Collaborate with mentors and leaders to gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses
+ Troubleshoot and optimize test automation, reliability, performance, and monitoring for production services
+ Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Embody our Culture  (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/about/corporate-values) and Values (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/culture)

**Qualifications**

**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.

+ 2+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems on platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP, or comparable cloud environments, with production ownership and CI/CD pipeline integration.​
+ 2+ years of experience building systems with emphasis on reliability, durability, and operational efficiency, including experience with live site operations, incident response, and performance
+ 2+ years of experience programming in modern back-end languages such as C#, Java, Go, or Python.​

**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.

**Additional or Preferred Qualifications:**

+ Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
+ OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
+ OR equivalent experience.

+ Experience with API development frameworks such as OData, GraphQL, gRPC.
+ Experience with designing, building, or maintaining large-scale telemetry pipelines for cloud services or APIs

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 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 and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

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Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.

Consistent with applicable law, 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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations (https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html) .

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