Microsoft

Software Engineer II & Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft$119K — $234K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with 2+ years of coding experience in C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python.
  • Experience in building and shipping production software or services.
  • Understanding of data structures, algorithms, and software design fundamentals.
  • Familiarity with cloud services, distributed systems, and large-scale data processing.
  • Exposure to billing, metering, and cost/usage analytics, ideally in a software context.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, test, and operate features for billing and cost management platforms.
  • Build reliable and scalable APIs and services for usage metering and cost aggregation.
  • Write well-tested code and engage in code reviews to maintain engineering standards.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve production issues while participating in an on-call rotation.
  • Collaborate with product managers and designers to translate requirements into functioning software.
  • Learn about commerce and cost management to enhance product quality.
  • Utilize AI-powered development tools to augment coding and testing processes.

Benefits

  • Work with cutting-edge AI technologies to enhance productivity.
  • Opportunity to grow engineering skills and ship impactful software used by many customers.
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams across Microsoft.
  • Involvement in a rapidly growing field of enterprise security and cost management.
  • Access to comprehensive company benefits and resources.
Full Job Description
Overview

Do you want to help organizations understand, govern, and optimize what they invest to secure their digital estate?

Security is one of the fastest-growing areas of enterprise investment. As customers adopt AI-powered and consumption-based security services at scale, they need a clear, unified way to see what security costs, how it is consumed, and how to optimize it, so they can invest with confidence and maximize the value of every dollar they spend on protection.

We build the platform and experiences that power billing, cost management, and FinOps for Microsoft Security, spanning the core platform and the customer-facing experiences that give customers transparent, trustworthy, and actionable cost visibility. We partner deeply across Microsoft Security, commerce, and cost management teams to deliver one consistent story across every experience.

As a Software Engineer II on the Security FinOps team, you will design, build, and operate the platform services and customer-facing experiences that meter usage, aggregate cost, and give customers transparent, actionable billing and cost visibility across the Microsoft Security portfolio. You will grow your engineering craft while shipping production software that thousands of customers depend on to understand what they spend on security.

Responsibilities
  • Design, implement, test, and operate features for the billing, cost management, and FinOps platform and experiences, with guidance from senior engineers.
  • Build reliable, scalable APIs, services, and experiences that meter usage, aggregate cost, and present cost and usage insights.
  • Write high-quality, well-tested code and participate in code reviews to uphold engineering standards.
  • Diagnose and resolve issues in production services, participating in an on-call rotation and contributing to live-site health.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and partner teams to translate requirements into working software.
  • Continuously learn the domain of commerce, metering, and cost management, and apply it to improve the product.
  • Leverage AI-powered development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to accelerate coding, testing, and end-to-end (E2E) development, applying AI responsibly to improve engineering productivity and quality.


Qualifications

Required 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#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python, OR equivalent experience.

Other Qualifications:
  • Experience building and shipping production software or services.
  • Working knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and software design fundamentals.
  • Experience with cloud services, distributed systems, web experiences, or large-scale data processing.
  • Exposure to commerce, billing, metering, usage, or cost/usage reporting and analytics.
  • Familiarity with Azure, REST/API design, or telemetry and monitoring.


Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 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

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 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

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 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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Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Microsoft’s devices and consumer (D&C) licensing segment licenses the Windows operating system and related software, Microsoft Office for consumers, and the Windows Phone operating system. The company’s computing and gaming hardware segment provides Xbox gaming and entertainment consoles and accessories, second-party and third-party video games, and Xbox Live subscriptions; surface devices and accessories; and Microsoft PC accessories. Its phone hardware segment offers Lumia smartphones and other non-Lumia phones. Its D&C segment provides Windows Store, Xbox Live transactions, and Windows phone store; search advertising; display advertising; Office 365 Home and Office 365 Personal; first-party video games; and other consumer products and services as well as operating retail stores. Microsoft’s commercial licensing segments license server products, including Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center, and related Client Access Licenses (CALs); Windows Embedded; Windows operating system; Microsoft Office for business, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, and related CALs; Microsoft Dynamics business solutions; and Skype. Its commercial segment offers enterprise services, including premier support services and Microsoft consulting services; commercial cloud comprising Office 365 Commercial, other Microsoft Office online offerings, Dynamics CRM Online, and Microsoft Azure; and other commercial products and online services. The company markets and distributes its products through original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and resellers, as well as online.

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