New 
Software Engineer II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 09, 2025 | |
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OverviewAre you ready to make a global impact? Join the Edge Distribution Services (EDS) Web Services team at Microsoft, where we architect and operate the backend web services that help deliver critical software like new Windows features, security patches, and apps to billions of devices worldwide. Our services are the backbone of secure software distribution, ensuring that customers everywhere receive critical updates and new features reliably and safely. The scale and reach of our work are unmatched, and we take immense pride in our mission to keep the world's devices secure and up to date.As a Software Engineer II on our team, you will be at the forefront of designing, implementing, and optimizing these highly performant and massively scalable services. You'll be involved in all phases of the lifecycle, from design to deployment and support. This role is your chance to accelerate your career growth and refine your technical skills by working at world-scale.Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our employees unite with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to achieve shared goals. Every day, we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create an inclusive culture where everyone can thrive both at work and beyond.
ResponsibilitiesWorks with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.Creates and implements clean, simple, testable code with a strong emphasis on quality, maintainability, and reuse.Collaborates effectively across teams to deliver high-quality solutions from design to implementation and roll out.Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.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 at scale.Drives quality improvements through design reviews, code reviews, modeling a growth mindset, and providing clear, constructive feedback. | |