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About Microsoft
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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The Senior Software Engineer joins the Agent platform team to develop a modular, event-driven platform for Microsoft 365 Copilot. This role involves designing, developing, and hardening core platform capabilities, including real-time multimodal orchestration, long-running task durability, and self-serve partner tooling. You will code, debug, test, and troubleshoot production systems, contribute to safe deployment practices, and build robust telemetry and evals. The position requires a deep understanding of distributed systems to create high-quality, observable, and reliable services. Candidates must possess technical engineering experience with languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. The work focuses on building the infrastructure that powers Copilot agents across applications like Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, ensuring reliability and customer trust through rigorous engineering standards.
What does a Software Engineer earn?
Median $196000 from 2584 postings across 147 companies.
Design, develop, and harden core platform capabilities for the Agent platform.
Code, debug, test, and troubleshoot production systems that other agents depend on.
Build robust telemetry and evaluations to ensure system reliability and observability.
Implement real-time multimodal orchestration and long-running task durability.
Create and optimize self-serve partner tooling to enable rapid innovation.
Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) to monitor and restore services during outages.
Develop design documents to identify dependencies for products, applications, and services.
Contribute to safe deployment practices and flighting for new features.
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.
Ability to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire and every two years thereafter.
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 high scale platform integrated with LLM (preferred).