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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 Software Engineer II within the Intelligent Conversation and Communications Cloud team, you will design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems that power AI-driven voice agents, multimodal intelligence, and agentic experiences. You will develop next-generation platforms to extract semantic understanding from voice, video, screen sharing, and meeting interactions while ensuring system reliability, security, and performance. The role involves collaborating with product managers and data scientists to deliver innovative solutions using modern AI technologies, LLMs, NLP, speech technologies, and real-time communications platforms. You will manage the full lifecycle of features from design through production deployment, utilizing languages such as C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python. The work focuses on transforming communication signals into intelligent actions within a cloud-scale environment to solve complex problems in automated enterprise collaboration and interactive media services.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Washington?
Median $208250 from 287 postings across 31 companies.
Design, build, and operate highly scalable distributed services for AI-driven communication experiences.
Develop platforms that extract semantic insights from voice, video, and meeting interactions.
Create intelligent enterprise experiences using modern AI technologies and agentic workflows.
Contribute to system architecture with a focus on scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
Improve service health through observability, automation, and incident response.
Take ownership of features from initial design and implementation through production deployment.
Participate in design and code reviews to ensure engineering excellence.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
Ability to pass a Microsoft Cloud background check every two years.
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 3+ years of technical engineering experience (preferred).
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field and 5+ years of technical engineering experience (preferred).
Experience building large-scale distributed systems, cloud services, or enterprise platforms (preferred).
Experience designing reliable, highly available, and observable production services (preferred).
Familiarity with AI/ML technologies, LLMs, agentic systems, NLP, speech technologies, or real-time communications (preferred).
Experience with prompt engineering, evaluation strategies, model hosting best practices, or media services (preferred).
Windows
C
C++
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Test Automation
Telemetry
Logging
Tracing
Generative AI
Device Orchestration
Firmware
Drivers
System Internals
Diagnostics
Data Engineering