Senior Software Engineer - M365 Copilot App

Microsoft • Mountain View, CA

72d

About The Position

AI is transforming productivity in profound ways. As the new home of Office productivity, the M365 Copilot App is at the forefront of this transformation. It is one of the fastest growing products at Microsoft, and the primary means through which most M365 users experience the power of Copilot - be it Chat, Search, or Agents. M3CA is a multi-platform product, built for consumer-grade experiences and enterprise-grade trust. Our team is responsible for all aspects of engineering for this ecosystem of applications and services. As a Senior Software Engineer on the team, you will be responsible for designing, building and running the Copilot application across Windows, Mac, and Web platforms. You will lead architectural decisions and contribute hands-on code to advance the state of the art and build best-in-class applications, balancing innovation with platform stability. You will work closely with other engineers to take ideas through design, implementation, validation, and release. You will write secure, reliable, scalable, and high-performance code as well as automation to test it and telemetry to measure its behavior in production. You will work in a fast paced, highly collaborative environment to design, prototype, implement, and ship features. You will partner across multiple product and platform teams in Microsoft and define reusable architectural patterns and best practices that enable consistent, intelligent, and high-performing user experiences at scale. You will mentor engineers and foster a culture of technical excellence through best practices in architecture, performance profiling, and cross-platform design systems. You will provide engineering leadership to others in the team in taking on the engineering and technical challenges inherent in building and delivering a consumer-grade application that powers cross-platform AI experiences.

Requirements

• 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, Swift, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years developing, deploying, and maintaining one or more large scale Windows, Mac, and Web applications.
• 4+ years of demonstrated ability in designing, implementing, and debugging application and frontend code.
• 2+ years experience responding to customer feedback and fixing product quality and craftsmanship.

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ 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 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Enthusiasm for mentoring and guiding other engineers and team members.

Responsibilities

• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of scenarios.
• Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for the application and service.
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of cross-product features with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive multiple group's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers across the team, working on-call to monitor the product for degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of the product while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers.

Benefits

• Industry leading healthcare
• Educational resources
• Discounts on products and services
• Savings and investments
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Generous time away
• Giving programs
• Opportunities to network and connect

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree