Software Engineer II

Are you passionate about cross-platform development on large scale projects for one of the most exciting and diverse divisions in the company? Are you looking for big, creative challenges that show immediate results, given that your customers will be just down the hallway/teams call away? Do you want to be at the core of it all, acting as a force multiplier enabling hordes of engineers to do their best work?

The Engineering Systems 365 (ES365) team owns the tools that make up the end-to-end developer experience in Office from source control and check-in experience to build, validation, and deployment automation, and we’re making big, bold changes – for the better! We’re making it easy to build and ship apps across platforms and endpoints, and we’re moving away from proprietary, internal-only tools onto “One Microsoft” investments, open source, and industry standard tools. The Apple Fundamentals team focused on defining and improving the end-to-end developer experience for engineers working on Macs. Also, you will contribute to the development and evolution of ACES (Apple Cloud Engineering System) which is what powers Mac and iOS products. We have opportunities that span a wide range of front-end and back-end technologies including cli development, back-end services, managed code, native code, cross-platform, databases, distributed systems, cloud services, and more.

We are looking for an experienced Software Engineer II who has customer passion, bias for action, and deep engineering experience in architecting and delivering services and tools. This role will require you to partner across organizations and divisions and presents an opportunity to help define and deliver the vision and technical strategy for improving our engineering systems. And we believe that great things in software only happen within high-functioning, high-trust, high-fun team environments. Come join the team that is building the future of Apple Engineering Systems at Microsoft!

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

• Work with engineers, product managers, designers, and partner teams to deliver a set of features with the right overall design and architecture.
• Own and deliver complete features across the development lifecycle, including design, architecture, implementation, testability, debugging, shipping, and servicing.
• Write clean, well-thought-out code with an emphasis on quality, performance, simplicity, durability, scalability, and maintainability.
• Be committed to delivering the best experience for our customers.
• Help create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self and where we do our best work as a result.
• 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.
• 2+ years experience building highly available distributed systems at scale.

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.
• 1+ year of experience developing Apple developer tools.
• Experience working across disciplines, groups, and teams.
• Experience with Azure stack, Swift and yaml.

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 September 25, 2025.

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