Software Engineering IC2

About the Role

The Partner Engineering Platform (PEP) team within the Windows Ecosystem and Commercial Engagement (WECE) team builds secure, reliable, and compliant services, data pipelines, and agentic solutions that enable collaboration across Microsoft's global network of partners, customers, and engineering teams. This role involves designing, building, testing, and operating cloud services that power collaboration between Microsoft and its partners, addressing real-world engineering problems across APIs, distributed systems, security, data processing, and service reliability. The work will involve production systems used across Microsoft and its partners, focusing on building services that remain correct and available as usage, data volume, and integration complexity increase. Success requires a solid engineering foundation, curiosity, a growth mindset, and the ability to drive defined problems to completion with increasing independence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and operate secure and scalable cloud services and APIs with guidance on larger design decisions.
• Own features end to end, from technical design and implementation through deployment and production support.
• Build reliable solutions involving APIs, data processing, authentication and authorization, and asynchronous workflows.
• Write high quality, maintainable, well-tested code and contribute to unit, integration, and automated test coverage.
• Implement authentication, authorization, data synchronization, and asynchronous processing logic that correctly handles retries, failures, and edge cases.
• Add telemetry, logging, and alerts to the features you build, and use them to monitor service health and diagnose issues.
• Participate in on-call rotation, live-site support, and investigate production issues to contribute to service reliability and operational improvements.
• Participate in design reviews and code reviews, incorporating feedback, and contributing to engineering quality.
• Collaborate with engineers, program managers, and partner teams to clarify requirements and deliver working solutions.
• Learn and apply team engineering standards, security and compliance practices, and responsible use of approved AI-assisted development tools.

Requirements & Tech Stack

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field AND 1+ year of technical engineering experience with coding in languages such as C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
• OR a Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience developing, testing, and debugging software in a professional or production environment.
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design.
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly and take defined tasks to completion with appropriate guidance.
• Good communication and collaboration skills in a team environment.
• Experience developing applications using one or more of:
• C#.
• .NET.
• Experience designing and building REST APIs, microservices, or distributed systems.
• Experience with Azure or comparable cloud platforms.
• Problem-solving, debugging, and software design skills.
• Familiarity with relational or NoSQL databases, and messaging or queueing systems.
• Experience with authentication and authorization concepts such as OAuth, Microsoft Entra ID, or role-based access control.
• Experience working with cloud-native architectures, containers, or Kubernetes.
• Experience with source control (Git), CI/CD pipelines, automation, and DevOps practices.
• Exposure to monitoring, telemetry, or live-site operations.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to improve engineering productivity and operational efficiency.
• Communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across teams.

Additional Requirements

• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: Required upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.