Software Engineer II

Azure Core is responsible for building and operating the foundational infrastructure that powers Microsoft Azure. This includes the platform services that enable compute, networking, storage, and distributed systems to operate reliably and at scale across Microsoft's global cloud footprint. These services are central to Azure's control plane and are critical to ensuring platform availability, performance, and customer trust.

As a Software Engineer II within this organization, you will work on developing and operating highly reliable, low-latency platform services that manage persistent, distributed system state. These services are deeply integrated into Azure's infrastructure and serve as essential components for internal and external workloads that demand strict service letter agreements (SLAs) for durability, availability, and scalability.

This is a high-impact role focused on building foundational platform services for the Azure cloud. You'll be part of a team that values deep technical expertise, strong execution, and a commitment to delivering secure, scalable, and maintainable systems at global scale.

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.

• Review and contribute to product and test code ensuring quality, security, compliance, and team standards.
• Write and maintain extensible, reliable, and maintainable code with minimal supervision while escalating blockers as needed.
• Use debugging, telemetry, tests, and logs proactively to verify assumptions and investigate production issues.
• Apply AI tools across the software lifecycle responsibly, and create and execute thorough test strategies to ensure solution quality.
• Collaborate with other teams on design dependencies, contribute to architectural decisions, and help ensure system scalability, performance, and security.
• Follow security, privacy, accessibility, and regulatory compliance best practices and participate in secure deployment and live site operations.
• Support product deployment, monitoring, incident response, telemetry integration, automation, and continuous learning to improve engineering excellence.

Required Qualifications:

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

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.