Microsoft

Software Engineer II

Microsoft$100K — $199K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field with 2+ years of coding experience in C# & .NET or equivalent experience
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with 2+ years of experience or a Bachelor's Degree with 3+ years.
  • Experience designing scalable production-quality services
  • Strong collaborative and interpersonal communication abilities
  • Familiarity with geospatial technology and tools
  • Knowledge of Azure or comparable cloud services
  • Experience with machine learning frameworks and AI projects.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable software services for high-volume geospatial workloads
  • Apply engineering techniques and machine learning to solve complex geospatial problems
  • Deliver features for premium service quality internationally
  • Experiment with innovative technologies like LLMs to enhance system efficiency
  • Improve service reliability and performance through robust software design
  • Collaborate with partner teams to develop high-quality geospatial services

Benefits

  • Opportunity to impact millions of users worldwide
  • Work with cutting-edge technologies
  • Collaborative and inclusive company culture
  • Support for professional growth and innovation
  • Engage with a team focused on challenging problems
Full Job Description
Overview

Microsoft AI Search Places is the center of excellence for understanding and using location and geospatial knowledge for 1st and 3rd party scenarios. Our location services are used broadly by major Microsoft products such as Bing, Copilot, Ads, Office, Windows, Teams, and we power the Azure Maps APIs offered to 3rd party developers. The Search Places team uses geospatial knowledge and advanced Artificial Intelligence technologies to bring high quality Location Search capabilities for people and businesses around the world

We are looking for a solid technical individual with rich industry experience and diverse skills ranging from traditional distributed computing to hands-on expertise in artificial intelligence. This position offers great opportunities to work on challenging problems, build solutions using cutting-edge technologies and have a direct impact on millions of users worldwide. If you are eager to take on challenges, the Search Places team has an exciting opportunity for you!

Responsibilities
  • Designs and builds scalable, backend-focused software services and distributed systems that improve service reliability, performance, security, and efficiency, supporting high-volume geospatial and location-based workloads in production.
  • Applies engineering techniques and machine learning solutions to solve complex geospatial suggestion and location search problems in production.
  • Works on core technology and engineering stack to deliver features to ensure premium service quality internationally.
  • Experiments with new technologies such as LLMs to improve quality and efficiency of the system.
  • Designs and builds software functionalities to improve service reliability, scalability, performance, security, efficiency, etc.
  • Collaborates with partner teams to understand their geospatial services requirements, develop high quality services & solutions to deliver value to our customers.


Qualifications

Required:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages C# & .NET
    • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.


Preferred:
  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years work experience with coding in languages in C# & .NET
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years work experience with coding in languages including C# & .NET
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Capable of designing and implementing scalable production quality services and automated solutions to process large scale data
  • Solid collaborative and interpersonal communication skills.
  • Maps/Geospatial experience.
  • Understanding of Azure or other cloud services/functions.
  • Leveraging Agentic Productivity Tools for tasks.
  • Familiarity with machine learning frameworks and libraries and experience in machine learning and artificial intelligence projects.


#MicrosoftAI

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.

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