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The Senior Software Engineer joins the Agent Registry & Governance team to build foundational platform and administration experiences for Agent 365. This role involves designing and developing scalable cloud services, APIs, and platform components that serve as the governed source of truth for agents, tools, skills, and MCP servers. You will lead end-to-end delivery of features for agent registration, inventory, lifecycle management, and governance rules engines. Key responsibilities include implementing policy evaluation, auditability, and metadata management while improving production service observability and security. The role requires proficiency in languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, with preferred experience in C# and .NET, Azure, and React. You will solve the technical challenge of managing AI-powered experiences at scale through robust distributed systems.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.
Design and develop scalable services and APIs for the Agent Registry and governance experiences.
Implement capabilities for agent registration, inventory, lifecycle management, and administration.
Lead end-to-end delivery of platform features from technical design through deployment and live-site operations.
Build secure and extensible platform components to support first-party and third-party integrations.
Design and implement governance capabilities including policy evaluation, auditability, and enforcement workflows.
Improve the scalability, reliability, performance, security, and observability of production services.
Mentor engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and technical guidance.
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).
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire and every two years thereafter.
7+ years of professional software engineering experience building scalable services, APIs, distributed systems, or cloud applications (preferred).
Experience designing, developing, and operating production software and services (preferred).
Experience driving technical design and delivering end-to-end solutions across multiple services or components (preferred).
Experience with software engineering fundamentals including coding, debugging, testing, performance optimization, and code quality (preferred).
Experience with cloud platforms, distributed systems, data platforms, search technologies, or large-scale backend services (preferred).
Experience developing cloud services and applications using C# and .NET, Azure, React, and modern web application development (preferred).
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