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Posted date: Nov 25, 2025
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Category: Software Engineering
Location: Redmond, WA
Estimated salary: $158,000
Range: $100,600 - $215,400
Employment type: Full-Time
Work location type: 3 days / week in-office
Role: Individual Contributor
Description
OverviewAre you passionate about solving real world problems and creating innovative experiences that surprise and delight customers? Do you want to see your work deliver impact across numerous retail channels? Are you interested in building platforms that scale to meet the needs of the Microsoft.com store?
We are the engineering team that creates powerful, intelligent online experiences that enable, excite, and energize customers to discover, buy, use, and love Microsoft products & services. We are a highly driven group of talented individuals who operate in a lightweight, fast paced, collaborative Agile environment. We value passion, collaboration, adaptability, and a desire to learn new technical areas. Together we help the Microsoft Store demonstrate and bring to life Microsoft’s mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
We are looking for a Software Engineer II that will work on innovative new technologies to increase product awareness, build deals along with recommendations and personalization and build customer confidence in purchasing Microsoft products. If you are someone who has a technical background and possess curiosity, customer empathy, and the creative drive to dream up exciting ideas which will captivate our customers, you should talk with us.
Responsibilities
Provide technical leadership, raise the technical bar, maintain data and results-driven culture, nurture a team culture of high collaboration and trust.Lead the team in using AI to innovate the engineering process.Participate actively in detailed design, code reviews, bug/issue investigations with the feature teams and support well informed decisions towards business and engineering goals.Come up with creative solutions to develop innovative interaction models to create compelling user experiences.Execute in an agile model where you do up-front sprint planning, participate in scrums, and maintain a good glide path towards completion.Own accurate costing for your engineering activities and execute with high accountability to schedule and quality.Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.Contribute to the development of the test infrastructure for our features.Maintain an unwavering focus on our customers and the value you can deliver to them.
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
3+ years of experience designing and developing software in a full stack capacity.Outstanding technical problem solving and debugging capability.Demonstrated proficiency in creating solutions leveraging Azure.Experience in algorithm design with a background in mathematics or statistics.Solid written and verbal communication skills.
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
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.
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