Software Engineer II

Overview

Come build the platform that powers Microsoft’s partner ecosystem. In Partner Center & Marketplace—a core part of Microsoft’s Commerce + Ecosystems division—you’ll help deliver the foundational services and experiences that enable partners to build, publish, sell, and grow with Microsoft—and help customers discover and deploy 1P/3P solutions. You’llleverage GitHub Copilot, and the latest generative AI models as you work across APIs, big data, services, and user experiences that operate at global scale—making it simpler, more secure, and more intelligent for partners and sellers to do business with Microsoft. This position will be in the Partner Foundations Engineering team responsible for building the platform and infrastructure services that power the PartnerPortal (partner.microsoft.com), Partner AI Assistant, Partner Security and Partner Enrollment. This is a very visible role with high impact where all the components you build will be used by our entire ecosystem of internal and external stakeholders. As a Software Engineer in this team, you will have the opportunity to explore and innovate using cutting-edge technologies like Azure, OpenAI & LLMs, Data & ML and drive business processes and contribute to strategy and broader vision. You will be working on services that are built from the ground up and influence the design and architecture of our services. Success in this role means you will take ownership of feature areas, drive innovation with the latest AI technologies—including Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI Studio, and GitHub Copilot—and deliver solutions that scale. You move with urgency, but balance speed with thoughtful collaboration and a commitment to quality and security. You foster an inclusive environment where everyone’s ideas are valued and learning is ongoing, and you help others grow by sharing knowledge and mentoring.Throughout, you demonstrate Microsoft’s values of respect, integrity, and accountability, fostering a culture where everyone can thrive.

Responsibilities

• Works 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 code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable. - 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.
  
  

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications (RQs/MQs)

• 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.
• 1+ yearsexperience in designing, developing, and shipping software solutions on a Cloud services platform (e.g. Azure, AWS, Google Cloud etc.) -
• 1+ yearsexperience building and working with scalable Web Services, REST APIs with NoSQL and/or SQL based backend data store.
  

Additional Or Preferred Qualifications (PQs)

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python - OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python - OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ yearsexperience with AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) and large language models (LLMs) such as GPT or Claude Sonnet.
  
  

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.