Software Engineer II

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Microsoft
Full time
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USA
10/04/2026
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Redmond, WA

Responsibilities

Develop, test, debug, and maintain secure platform components and features for Windows Server.
Design and implement automated validation, testing, and fuzzing solutions to improve software quality, reliability, security, and compatibility.
Build telemetry, logging, diagnostics, and observability capabilities for product health, reliability, performance, and security insights.
Participate in threat modeling, security reviews, vulnerability mitigation, security invariant validation, and targeted test development.
Investigate product issues using debugging tools, logs, telemetry, and monitoring systems, and contribute to corrective actions.
Support security incident response by assessing impact, diagnosing issues, delivering fixes, and improving platform resilience.
Apply secure-by-design, secure-by-default, secure coding, cryptographic, key management, auditability, and platform hardening practices.
Participate in code reviews and design discussions and collaborate with partner teams to deliver secure, scalable, reliable solutions.
Use AI-assisted engineering practices for code generation, testing, debugging, analysis, and documentation while maintaining accountability for quality.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
3+ years of professional software engineering experience developing, testing, debugging, and maintaining software is preferred.
Experience with one or more of C, C++, C#, Python, Rust, PowerShell, or Kusto is preferred.
Experience designing automated tests, validation frameworks, telemetry, diagnostics, or developer productivity tools is preferred.
Experience or demonstrated interest in operating systems, virtualization technologies, systems programming, platform engineering, and software security is preferred.
Familiarity with Secure Boot, Trusted Platform Module, virtualization-based security, code integrity, Credential Guard, WDAC/App Control, BitLocker, and Secured-core is preferred.
Understanding of security concepts, secure coding, threat modeling, and attack techniques such as credential theft, privilege escalation, persistence, and lateral movement is preferred.
Familiarity with cryptography fundamentals, security telemetry, observability, monitoring, and incident investigation is preferred.
Problem-solving, debugging, collaboration, communication, learning, and secure systems-building skills are preferred.

Benefits

The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $102,100-$202,200 per year, with a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range of USD $133,800-$219,200 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled, with the position open for a minimum of 5 days.

Salary: $102k - $219k/yr

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