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Posted date: Aug 20, 2025
Category: Software Engineering
Location: Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations
Estimated salary: $158,000
Range: $100,600 - $215,400
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 100% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
We are seeking a Software Engineer II to join our team working on the XPF (XStore on Pilotfish) platform.This role is ideal for individuals who are passionate about building reliable, diagnosable, and scalable systems. As a developer in the team, you will play a key role in ensuring the operational readiness and long-term sustainability of existing platform and future projects.
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.
Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features. Investigate and resolve complex issues across hardware, firmware, and software layers. Drive root cause analysis and implement durable fixes to improve system reliability.Design and develop tools that reduce manual interventions in diagnostics, repair workflows, and node lifecycle management. Focus on automation to streamline operations. Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight. Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable. Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.Build and enhance diagnostics workflows to detect and isolate hardware and software faults. Ensure comprehensive diagnostics coverage for new hardware Stock Keeping Unit (SKUs) and evolving platform requirements.Identify and close operational and security gaps in the platform. Ensure systems are resilient, secure, and compliant with internal standards by working with partner teams as needed.Collaborate with engineering and support teams to ensure Storage’s requirements are met across all phases of the platform lifecycle. Drive alignment on diagnostics, telemetry, and repair strategies.Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.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.
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 PythonOR 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: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 PythonMaster'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 PythonOR equivalent experience.Product Management 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.
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Microsoft will accept applications for the role until September 4, 2025.
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