Software Engineer II

• ​​Build and maintain software components for monitoring, alerting, dashboards, diagnostics, telemetry collection, and service health validation.  
• Implement automation for alert enrichment, incident context generation, health checks, and operational reporting. 
• Use logs, metrics, traces, telemetry, tests, and debugging tools to investigate issues and improve diagnosability. 
• Participate in code reviews and apply team standards for maintainability, reliability, testability, security, and privacy. 
• Contribute to AI-assisted workflows for incident classification, evidence collection, root-cause investigation, and remediation recommendations.  
• Participate in on-call rotations, incident retrospectives, and follow-up work that improves monitoring, tests, documentation, and troubleshooting guides.  
• Escalate blockers, design issues, reliability risks, and production concerns with clear impact and timeline ​

• Other:

  • Embody our Culture and Values

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. 

Additional Job 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 

• ​​Software engineering experience building features, services, tools, or automation using languages such as C#, Python, Go, Java, PowerShell, or TypeScript.  
• Foundational understanding of distributed systems, cloud services, APIs, monitoring, logging, telemetry, and production debugging.  
• Ability to write maintainable, testable, diagnosable, and secure code with guidance from experienced engineers.  
• Collaboration and communication skills in engineering and live-site situations. ​ 
•  Experience or interest in Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Kusto/KQL, Geneva, IcM, or similar observability and incident-management systems.  
• Exposure to AI-assisted development, runbook automation, alerting, service health dashboards, or telemetry-driven diagnostics.  
• Interest in reliability concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, availability, latency, error rates, operational toil reduction, and safe deployment practices.  
   

Candidate Signals  

• Software engineering fundamentals and ability to learn production systems quickly.  
• Interest in cloud-scale monitoring, telemetry, observability, reliability, and safe automation.  
• Clear communication and collaboration during investigations and customer-impacting situations. ​ 

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.