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Back-End Software Engineer II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 11, 2025 | |
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OverviewSecurity represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft's mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers' heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Microsoft Graph is the gateway to data and intelligence in Microsoft 365. It provides a unified programmability model that one can use to access the tremendous amount of data in Microsoft 365, Windows, and Enterprise Mobility + Security. Developers around the globe use the wealth of data in Microsoft Graph to build apps and automation for organizations and consumers that interact with billions of users that use Microsoft 365 products for work, school, and personal productivity. The Graph Experiences team, part of the broader Entra Programmability and Microsoft Graph Platform area, is responsible for securing and scaling Microsoft's API ecosystem.This team plays a critical role in ensuring secure, resilient, and developer-friendly access to Microsoft Graph APIs-empowering both internal and external partners to create impactful, AI-powered solutions across the Microsoft ecosystem. The team also builds and maintains advanced telemetry pipelines that provide deep visibility into API usage, health signals, and operational anomalies. Our mission is rooted in operational excellence, continuous learning, and a collaborative spirit. 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. This flexible work position is located at our Microsoft office in Redmond, Washington. Relocation support will be provided, and successful candidates will need to relocate or reside within 50 miles of the field location.
ResponsibilitiesContributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.Follows best practices for product development and scaling to customer requirements and applies best practices for meeting scaling needs and performance expectations and security promises.Understands and applies security best practices and establishes code invariants to model "security as code," ensuring each layer is independently secure, and minimizing risk with minimal supervision. Understands the importance of building solutions that expand upon the work of others. Contributes to the refinement of product features by escalating findings from analyses to inform decisions regarding the engineering of products.Collaborate with mentors and leaders to gain a working understanding of Microsoft businessesTroubleshoot and optimize test automation, reliability, performance, and monitoring for production servicesRemains 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 ourCultureandValues | |