Job Description

Software Engineer II

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Hyderabad, Telangana, India



Date posted

Sep 18, 2025

Job number

1879383

Work site

Fully on-site

Travel

0-25

%

Role type

Individual Contributor

Profession

Software Engineering

Discipline

Software Engineering

Employment type

Full-Time

Overview

The Cloud & AI organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate.





Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. Microsoft is one of the largest enterprise service companies in the world. Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all by empowering every user, customer, and developer with simplified, end-to-end security solutions that span the modern enterprise. As part of Microsoft's Cloud + AI (C+AI) organization, our team plays a vital role in strengthening Microsoft's internal and customer-facing security posture. We are focused on building solutions that drive continuous security validation, operational resilience, and platform-wide protection--ensuring trust in Microsoft's services at scale.





Our culture embraces a growth mindset, a pursuit of engineering excellence, and a focus on collaboration and inclusion. We believe that empowering individuals to bring their best each day leads to innovations that can transform industries and positively impact billions of people around the globe. We are seeking a Software Engineer II who is passionate about building enterprise-scale solutions and advancing AI-powered security engineering. In this role, you will deliver secure, scalable, and cost-effective systems while driving improvements in resiliency, automation, and developer experience. Your creativity, technical depth, and results-driven mindset will help shape Microsoft's next generation of security solutions. Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We live our values of respect, integrity, and accountability, fostering a culture where everyone can grow and thrive. In alignment with these values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive workplace that drives innovation and delivers impact--every day.





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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day. 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. In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field or equivalent work experience 3-8 years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and running cloud services at large scale in C# and .Net. Familiarity with distributed systems and event driven architectures. Deep understanding on security aspects of software like authentication, authorization, encryption, etc. Excellent coding skills, strong in OOPS, OOAD, design patterns and their application Ability to both work independently and coordinate across geographies. Ability to communicate complex ideas and concepts to a variety of cross-group stakeholders. Strong organization skills, a bias for action, and ability to deliver results. Proven ability to deal with ambiguity and drive for clarity.

Preferred Qualifications:

Proficient working knowledge of cloud-computing environments like Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP - Azure preferred. Experience with web service development and familiar with related technologies. Familiar with modern security models like OAuth and token-based authentication and authorization. Experience building and shipping production grade software or services. Experience using agile methodologies or test-driven development (TDD).

Responsibilities

Design and implement microservices to enable real time, highly scalable, performant, and sustainable solutions. Deliver automated and well-tested features across different services and platforms. Use engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle to establish maintainable, reliable, and secure systems. Manipulate, collate, and analyse complex, high dimensional data from varying sources to solve difficult problems. Collaborate with teammates in various roles to plan and execute on key deliverables. Work in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection, and growth Learn quickly from your peers, projects, and interactions with customers. Provide on call support and monitor the health of services in production as part of DevOps culture.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
?Industry leading healthcare
?Educational resources
?Discounts on products and services
?Savings and investments
?Maternity and paternity leave
?Generous time away
?Giving programs
?Opportunities to network and connect
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 and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.