Senior Software Engineer

Senior • On-site

$119,800 - $234,700/yr

Redmond, WA

Overview

We are looking to welcome a Senior Software Engineer to a group of innovative, energetic and diverse engineers on the Copilot team. You will work closely across disciplines to help create and enhance model powered capabilities (as new Reasoning models are developed) and enable Copilot to be an awesome end-end experience across all Desktop and Mobile canvases for Text, Image, Audio and other multi modal formats. You will be responsible for building scalable and performant backend services to implement and deliver cutting-edge features. This involves defining the architecture, implementation plan, ensuring everything is tested and robust, and improving processes to contribute to our best practices. You will be working in a multi discipline, high agility and dynamic team to rapidly innovate against competitive offerings from industry.

The MSAI (Microsoft Search, Assistant and Intelligence) team leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the center of its mission through M365 Copilot to enable unbounded efficiency and productivity for all our customers. M365 Copilot (BizChat) is the front and center of AI experiences across M365. We are a team that works out of multiple time zones (remote friendly); works across boundaries with rapid agility to deliver value for our customers.

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.

Qualifications

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.
4+ years of experience in designing, building, and managing available and distributed large-scale services.
4+ years of experience with cloud services such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP, or others.

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 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 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 equivalent experience.
Experience with Artificial Intelligence.

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 $158,400 - $258,000 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 24, 2025.

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Responsibilities

Designs, develops, and implements software to deliver solutions across M365 Copilot Chat and M365 Copilot platform.
Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders from multiple services and organizations across M365 to determine user requirements for complex scenarios for rapidly evolving Copilot ecosystem.
Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive product's project plans, release plans, and work items.
Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across products/solutions, working on-call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions. As a DRI, reproduce, debug and fix customer-reported problems.
Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for the product, application, service, or platform.
Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across the team.
Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.

Microsoft

Microsoft is a global technology company that focuses on empowering every person and organization to achieve more. With a mission to deliver the core infrastructure and foundational technologies for Microsoft's online businesses, including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Teams, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Azure platform, the company is dedicated to powering the 'Intelligent Cloud' mission. Microsoft values respect, integrity, and accountability, and fosters a culture of inclusion where employees can thrive. The company is committed to continuous improvement and collaboration to drive innovation and provide high-quality results to customers. With a diverse and inclusive workforce, Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer.