The Software Engineer II position on the SPARTANs team focuses on tackling strategic projects and complex engineering challenges within the M365 Core – Substrate. This role involves collaborating with experienced engineers to develop solutions that enhance modernization, resilience, and developer productivity. The team is dedicated to improving systems and fostering a culture of continuous learning and collaboration. Engineers will have the opportunity to strengthen their expertise in distributed systems while contributing to impactful projects across Microsoft 365.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• Experience designing, implementing, testing, or debugging production software.
• Experience collaborating with others to deliver software features or engineering improvements.
• Experience designing and developing reliable distributed systems, cloud services, or platform components.
• Experience diagnosing production issues using logs, metrics, distributed tracing, debuggers, profilers, or similar diagnostic tools.
• Experience with Azure or another public cloud platform.

• Ramp up on unfamiliar services and codebases to understand their architecture and operational characteristics.
• Work with senior engineers and partner teams to turn open-ended engineering problems into scoped deliverables.
• Design, implement, test, and deploy software that advances SPARTANs missions.
• Own features and technical deliverables from design through deployment and measurement of impact.
• Diagnose and address performance, latency, scalability, reliability, and cost issues in distributed services.
• Use telemetry, profiling, debugging, and experimentation to make evidence-based engineering decisions.
• Write clean, secure, testable, and observable code using appropriate technologies.
• Collaborate with teams across repository, service, and organizational boundaries to coordinate dependencies.
• Communicate technical progress, risks, decisions, and tradeoffs clearly to engineering partners.
• Apply a growth mindset by seeking feedback and sharing knowledge with the broader engineering community.

• Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.