Software Engineer II
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 13, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 4, 2026. Microsoft scores B on the Alion truth index.
Azure Arc connects the rest of the world's computing power to Azure. As Azure Arc team, we extend Azure’s cloud capabilities to on-premises, multi-cloud, and edge environments, simplifying the management of servers and Kubernetes environments. By projecting servers and Kubernetes clusters into Azure Resource Manager, customers can easily manage configurations and applications, enable monitoring and security, and deploy 1st and 3rd party applications.
As a Software Engineer II, you will work on designing, coding, validating, shipping, and running high scale services. You will contribute to all aspects of the stack, from agents running on servers and Kubernetes clusters to high-scale, globally distributed cloud services. You will integrate with other Azure services and create solutions using C#, Go, Kubernetes, Linux, Windows Server, and open-source technologies. You will have ownership of features, including design, code, testing, and telemetry coverage. This is an opportunity to collaborate with various teams and disciplines to deliver results that exceed our customers’ expectations, expand your knowledge, and accelerate your career growth.
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.
Responsibilities
- Contributes to the design of large-scale distributed software services and solutions.
- Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for scenarios, develops design documents and drives projects.
- Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance, maintainability and reliability of our services and components.
- Participates in Livesite operations with emphasis on timely response, delivery & customer satisfaction.
- Builds automation to identify, prevent and remediate service issues.
- Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to latest trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, scalability, observability, and performance of the product.
- Shares knowledge with colleagues via code and design reviews.
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, Go, 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 Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
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, Go, 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, Go, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- OR equivalent experience.
- 2+ years of hands-on software design and programming experience in Go, Java, C++, C#, or object-oriented programming.
- 2+ years of experience developing, deploying, monitoring, and shipping scalable cloud services.
- 2+ years of experience with containers and Kubernetes.
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.