New 
Software Engineer II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Aug 14, 2025 | |
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OverviewAre you ready to help reshape how real-time media flows across the internet? Join us as we build Microsoft's next-generation distributed media infrastructure-engineered to power everything from conversational AI to massive-scale live events. Designed from the ground up for flexibility, scalability, and developer delight, it's more than a service-it's the platform for the future of communication.We're looking for a Software Engineer II who thrive on solving hard problems, crafting elegant systems, and building foundational technology. If you're excited by Kafka-style pub/sub for media, Rust-powered performance, and the opportunity to revolutionize the backbone of our media infrastructure, this is your moment. 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.
ResponsibilitiesWorks with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.Embody our culture and values | |