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Microsoft Corporation is a global technology leader producing software, hardware, and cloud services including Windows, Office 365, Azure cloud platform, Xbox gaming, and Surface devices. Industry: Software & Cloud Computing
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As a Senior Software Engineer within the Microsoft Copilot frontier AI-native engineering team, you will build a customer-facing intelligent development and operations platform. You will own key deployment and operations intelligence capabilities, including risk assessment, trust scoring, and evaluation-based release gates. Your daily work involves building scalable, containerized backend services and agentic test-and-evaluation systems to assess release readiness and detect production issues. You will utilize languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python to develop these tools. The role focuses on solving the problem of moving AI-powered applications from idea to production safely at enterprise scale by providing automated testing, governance, monitoring, and agent-driven improvement loops to reduce operational overhead and identify deployment risks.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $197400 from 2576 postings across 150 companies.
Design, implement, and maintain scalable, containerized backend services and APIs.
Build agentic test-and-evaluation systems to assess release readiness and detect production issues.
Develop risk assessment, trust scoring, and evaluation-based release gates for AI applications.
Drive feature development from initial design through deployment to ensure reliability and scalability.
Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for live-site operations and incident response.
Improve service health through investments in observability, automation, and performance.
Conduct code reviews and establish engineering best practices and quality standards.
Mentor engineers through technical guidance, design reviews, and knowledge sharing.
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 meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including a Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 8+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
Experience with Power Platform or Microsoft 365 enterprise development (preferred).
Understanding of modern AI technologies, including generative AI, foundation models, and AI-powered systems (preferred).
Experience designing or building agentic systems and agentic loops (preferred).
Python
C#
Java
C++
JavaScript
C
Generative AI
Large Language Models
Vector Stores
Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Agentic AI
Big Data
Cloud Services
Observability
Agile
Large Language Models
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
C++
C
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft 365
Copilot
Copilot Studio
Power Platform
GitHub Copilot
APIs
Source Control
Machine Learning
Data Integration
Workflow Automation
Responsible AI