DevJobs
RoleSuite
CompaniesRemoteAboutMethodologyContactPrivacy
Updated 2026-06-19 12:00 UTC·© 2025–2026 RoleSuite
← Back to listings

Software Engineer II

Microsoft · United States, Washington, Redmond

Overview

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. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

 

Entra ID is at the center of Microsoft’s cloud strategy. We build and operate critical authentication, authorization and directory services that are used by the millions of Azure, Office 365, XBOX and Windows users worldwide. In the AI first, cloud-first world, sign-in and sign-up is the front door for reliable end user experience to use any of Microsoft cloud services. We are looking for a Software Engineer II who will work with Entra ID. Entra ID hosts millions of tenants and billions of identities. It serves billions of requests per day in the stacks powering core authentication and programmability. The backend directory store is at the heart of Entra ID architecture. Our team is evolving the directory store platform to address the needs for the next decade. You will have an opportunity to work on the latest technologies in storage and distributed systems and apply innovative algorithms for solving problems at scale and high performance.


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
  • Design and develop large scale distributed software services and solutions .
  • Adhere to and drive modern software engineering practices through design reviews.
  • System design through well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make - decisions.
  • Develop “best-in-class” engineering for our services by ensuring that the services and the components are well-defined and modularized, secure, reliable, diagnosable, actively monitored and reusable.
  • Improve test coverage for services, organize and implement integration tests, and resolve problem areas.
  • Considers testability, portability/monitoring, reliability, and maintainability, and understands when code is ready to be shared and delivered.
  • Exposes test coverage issues, organizes and implements integration tests, and resolves problem areas.
  • Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.
  • Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach - Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability and monitoring for Live Site.
  • Gain a working understanding of Microsoft businesses and collaborate with mentors and leaders to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.
  • Focus on customer/partner needs through a data driven approach.
  • Troubleshoot and optimize automation, reliability, and monitoring for Live Site.
  • Embody our culture and values 


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. 

 

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 4+ 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 4+ 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 in building high scale services



#MSFTSecurity



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.

Software pay context

Based on 7,690 disclosed Software salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $158K/year, with most offers between $124K and $199K (10th–90th percentile: $101K–$236K).

This posting lists $102K–$202K, in line with the $158K market median.

See the full Software salary breakdown →
Apply →

Other roles at Microsoft

  • Critical Environment Program Manager - Business OperationsUnited States, Texas, San Antonio
  • Principal Software EngineerUnited States, Washington, Redmond
  • Software Engineer II (Build Systems)India, Karnataka, Bangalore
  • Technical Support Engineer, Microsoft 365 - Exchange / Skype & Teams / SharePoint (Korean Speaker)Japan, Tokyo-to, Tokyo
  • Principal Product ManagementUnited States, Washington, Redmond
  • Senior HR Business Partner, JapanJapan, Tokyo-to, Tokyo
  • Senior Product ManagerUnited States, Washington, Redmond
  • Director, Sales Learning Program ManagerUnited States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations
  • Member of Technical Staff - Software Engineer, Health AIUnited States, New York, New York
  • Principal Designer - Microsoft AI HealthUnited States, New York, New York

More Software roles

  • Software Engineer III, ISFBox · Warsaw, Poland
  • Sr. Software Engineer - Provider ServicesJobgether · US
  • Software Engineer, Digital Products & Platforms (STB)GovTech Singapore · Singapore
  • Principal Engineer, Model Development PlatformWayve · Sunnyvale
  • Senior Staff Software Engineer, Gemini EnterpriseGoogle · Sunnyvale, CA, USA
  • Software Engineer III, Perception, XRGoogle · San Jose, CA, USA
  • Staff Software Engineer, Cloud AIGoogle · Sunnyvale, CA, USA
  • Senior Software Engineer, PlatformJobgether · US
  • Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure, YouTube Future of VideoGoogle · Cambridge, MA, USA
  • Software Engineer III, Kotlin, CompilerGoogle · Aarhus, Denmark