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The Senior Software Engineer joins the Copilot and Agents Core Platform team to build a scalable, extensible runtime infrastructure for LLM-powered agents. In this role, you will develop the next-generation agent runtime platform, focusing on features for long-running tasks, multi-agent collaboration, and permanent compute and memory. Your daily responsibilities include leading architecture and cross-team design, conducting code reviews, managing telemetry practices, and ensuring system reliability, security, and performance. You will utilize programming languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python to solve complex problems in search, retrieval, ranking, and recommendation systems. The work involves creating proactive workflows and intelligent agents for productivity, requiring deep technical knowledge of system architecture, APIs, and the responsible use of AI-native engineering across the software development life cycle.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.
Design and develop the architecture for a next-generation agent runtime platform.
Build infrastructure to support long-running tasks and multi-agent collaboration.
Guide complex system designs to ensure scalability, reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
Lead code reviews, debugging, and incident retrospectives to improve engineering quality.
Drive project execution and manage safe deployments for production environments.
Implement telemetry practices and observability to maintain live-site health.
Champion the responsible use of AI tools and artifacts across the software development life cycle.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (or equivalent experience).
3+ years of experience working training/evaluating search/information retrieval systems as Product Manager, Software Developer, or Data Scientist (preferred).
Experience with search, retrieval, ranking or recommendation systems, or large language model (LLM)-powered experiences (preferred).
Solid technical depth including comfort with system architecture and APIs, and the ability to engage closely with engineering and data science (preferred).
A track record of shipping complex, cross-team products or features at scale, from early concept to general availability (preferred).
LLM
Semantic Search
Vector Indexes
C#
C++
Java
Python
JavaScript
Rust
ASP.NET
Distributed Systems
Information Retrieval
DiskANN
Functional Programming
M365
C
Middleware