Software Engineering IC2

Overview

Do you want to be part of Microsoft's mission to "Empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more" — a mission that inspires us, drives our work, and pushes us to challenge the status quo every day? Our culture is centered around embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

The Federated Copilot Connectors (FCC) team brings people's everyday tools into Microsoft 365 Copilot. Using the open Model Context Protocol (MCP), our connectors let Copilot securely reach live data and take action in Microsoft and third-party systems. They work across Copilot Chat, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and Copilot Cowork for enterprise customers worldwide.

We are looking for a Software Engineer that can join the team and help build planet scale copilot connector experiences

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.

Responsibilities

• Delivers well-scoped features and fixes end-to-end with increasing independence, and reliably meets commitments.
• Builds and applies AI tools to measurably improve productivity and quality while maintaining engineering rigor.
• Write high-quality, secure, testable code with solid unit, integration and end-to-end test coverage; participate actively in code and design reviews.
• Join the on-call rotation and help triage and mitigate incidents and investigate root causes and using safe deployment practices such as feature flags and staged rollouts.
• Uphold security, privacy and compliance standards in every feature, including admin governance and tenant controls.
• Seek feedback, learn new technologies quickly, and take on more scope and ownership over time.

Required/Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including C#, .NET, Angular JS and Java script.

Minimum 2+ years of experince required.

Additional or preferred qualifications

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 Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field with minimum 2 years experience.
• Solid coding skills in at least one language, such as C#, .NET, Angular JS and Java script
• Experience developing and shipping features in distributed systems.
• Solid problem-solving, analytical and debugging skills.
• Ability to work and collaborate with teams across geographies and functions.
• Experience with cloud services (Azure preferred), REST APIs and service-to-service authentication (OAuth 2.0, Microsoft Entra ID).
• Experience with front-end frameworks (React/TypeScript) for building end-user experiences.
• Experience with telemetry and data analysis (Kusto/KQL) and with building or running evaluations.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools (for example GitHub Copilot) in day-to-day engineering.
• Exposure with live-site operations, on-call and safe deployment practices.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.

If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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