Software Engineer II

The  team provides customers with secure, dedicated Redis cache endpoints, exposed as a service, managed by Microsoft Azure. The service has seen rapid growth since its inception and is a critical component in cloud-native application development.

We are looking for a Software Engineer II who will be working on technologies, both proprietary and open source. We are a growing team that cares deeply about investing in our engineers along with our product. We prioritize collaboration, technical growth, and maintaining an inclusive and positive work environment. The problems we are trying to solve are interesting and challenging: building a reliable, highly-available and performant in-memory data store. Our new offerings feature the latest Redis innovations, industry-leading availability and a cost-effective total cost of ownership (TCO) designed for the hyperscale cloud. We deliver these capabilities on a trusted cloud platform, empowering businesses to scale and optimize their generative AI applications seamlessly. So come ready to work at cloud scale while maintaining a small-team environment! You have the flexibility to work remotely up to 50% of the time.

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.

Required/minimum qualifications

• 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+ years Experience with building testable, distributed and highly scalable online services on Azure or similar cloud platform 

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 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 $127,200 - $208,800 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until February 10, 2025. 

• Contributes to processes for the architecture of a product/solution feature and helps to create proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans, with technical leadership from others
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable. Writes and learns to create code that is extensible and maintainable
• Participates in region buildout and maintains operations of live service in air-gapped clouds as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis
• Builds knowledge, shares new ideas, and shares pain points of engineering tool gaps to improve software developer tools to support other programs, tools, and applications to create, debug, and maintain code for complex product features
• Applies best practices to reliably build code that is based on well-established methods while also applying best practices for new code development