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Posted date: Aug 06, 2025
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $158,000
Range: $100,600 - $215,400
Employment type: Full-Time
Travel amount: 25.0%
Work location type: Up to 50% work from home
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
With ever increasing focus on securing computing environments from a laptop in hands of a student, corporate PC of an employee, to Azure cloud infrastructure and containers running sensitive workloads, Enterprise and Security team is at the frontier of designing and developing OS platform to withstand constantly evolving attacks and protect customer data and operations as well as becoming a providing safe and secure environment to run AI frameworks, agents, and applications! Our team is hiring experienced engineer to join Enterprise and Security Data Protection team.As a Software Engineer II a successful candidate will analyze software requirements, produce and peer review software designs, develop reliable and secure OS components in C/C++, design, develop and maintain corresponding tests and test frameworks, implement component telemetry, and monitor and maintain health of the OS platform components. This position will allow you to accelerate your professional growth, provide opportunities to design software interacting with leading edge hardware and software security environments, contribute to safeguarding data of millions of customers, and empower them to achieve more.
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.
We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join our team!
Responsibilities:
- Analyze software requirements
- Produce and peer review software designs
- Develop reliable and secure OS components in C/C++
- Design, develop and maintain corresponding tests and test frameworks
- Implement component telemetry, and monitor and maintain health of the OS platform components
- Regularly update on projects status, communicate well within and outside of team
Qualifications
RequiredQualifications: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. 2+ years of experience producing reliable software/object-oriented designs2+years of experience in C/C++ development of OS lower-stack 2+ years of experience in firmware / kernel driver developmentOther 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 Python OR Master'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.2+ years experience in building, shipping and operating reliable, distributed systems software.Experience designing and developing security software and componentsExperience with software threat modelingExperience working with cryptographic primitives and libraries
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 Microsoft will accept applications for the role until August 13 , 2025 Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.
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