Senior Software Engineer

Overview

At Microsoft, passionate innovators come together to envision what’s next and take their careers further in a world of more possibilities. Innovation, openness, and collaboration drive our success in a cloud-enabled world.

Help shape how enterprises build, deploy, and operate AI-powered applications and agents at scale. You’ll join a frontier, AI-native engineering team within Microsoft Copilot, building a customer-facing intelligent development and operations platform that brings evals, automated testing, governance, monitoring, and an agent-driven improvement loop into one connected experience. You'll help customers move from idea to production faster and operate safely at enterprise scale. Your work will advance autonomous operations that identify deployment risks, diagnose production issues, and safely remediate them with less complexity and operational overhead.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll own key customer-facing deployment and operations intelligence capabilities, including risk assessment, trust scoring, and evaluation-based release gates that help customers ship apps and agents safely at scale. You'll build scalable, containerized backend services and agentic test-and-evaluation systems that assess release readiness, detect production issues, and guide safe recovery. You'll partner with engineers and product managers across Power Apps, Copilot Studio, Microsoft 365 Cowork, and Dataverse to take these capabilities from design to production, with a strong focus on quality, security, and reliability.

This opportunity will allow you to deepen your expertise in AI evaluation and multi-agent systems, strengthen your ability to design and operate distributed services at enterprise scale, and grow your technical leadership through hands-on ownership.

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

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand customer and business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Design, implement, test, debug, and maintain software services, APIs, tools, and platform components.
• Drive feature development from design through deployment, ensuring quality, maintainability, scalability, and reliability.
• Create and execute experimentation plans, analyze results, and use data to drive product and engineering improvements.
• Participate in architecture and design discussions, contributing technical expertise and proposing solutions to complex engineering problems.
• Partner with engineers, product managers, and adjacent teams to deliver end-to-end customer scenarios.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for owned components and participate in live-site operations, incident response, and root cause analysis.
• Improve service health through investments in reliability, observability, automation, performance, and operational excellence.
• Conduct code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices, quality standards, and development processes.
• Mentor junior engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, knowledge sharing, and day-to-day collaboration.
• Continuously learn and apply emerging technologies, AI capabilities, latest agentic software development practices, and engineering tools.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

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 Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Experience with Power Platform or Microsoft 365 enterprise development.
• Understanding of modern AI technologies, including generative AI, foundation models, and AI-powered systems, with the ability to apply AI concepts to real-world engineering challenges.
• Experience designing or building agentic systems and agentic loops, including systems that can reason, plan, take actions, use tools, and iteratively respond to results.

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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 IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $142,800 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 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.

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.

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