Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft • Redmond, WA

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About The Position

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness in a cloud-enabled world. The Business & Industry Copilots group is a rapidly growing organization that is responsible for Copilot Studio, the Microsoft Dynamics 365 suite of products, Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, AI Builder, Microsoft Industry Solution and more. Microsoft is considered one of the leaders in Software as a Service in the world of business applications and this organization is at the heart of how business applications are designed and delivered.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join Copilot Studio’s AI Orchestration team, which is responsible for leveraging and optimizing generative AI models to perform actions, make decisions, create responses, and more within an agent. Our orchestration capabilities power millions of both conversational and autonomous agents every day as part of the Copilot Studio service, and allows agents to integrate with Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Teams, IVR/voice products, power agents on the web, and much more. With the rapid pace of AI innovation, our team is uniquely positioned within Microsoft and the industry to analyze, experiment with, and productize new AI capabilities.
As a Senior Software Engineer, your role will be to provide technical leadership for a AI workstreams, build features with high quality and maintainability alongside teams of other engineers, operate our AI services, and coach junior engineers on the team. You will work across Microsoft to help teams build agents, and you will work with customers to determine how Copilot Studio and agents fit into their AI strategies.
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.

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, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• 7+ years industry experience in fullstack or backend development shipping services through multiple releases
• Experience building generative AI applications or services.
• Experience with the Power Platform or M365 Enterprise development.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with stakeholders to determine user requirements.
• Drives design documentation and dependency identification.
• Builds, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and maintains high-quality code.
• Designs and runs experiments to evaluate effectiveness of changes.
• Partners with PMs to deliver project and release plans.
• Acts as DRI and participates in on-call rotations.
• Proactively adopts new technologies to improve reliability, performance, and observability.
• Mentors other engineers and provides technical leadership while embodying Microsoft’s culture and values.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level