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Senior Software Engineer - VS Code (GitHub - CoreAI)

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond, WA$119.8k - $234.7kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer to help build the next generation of editing, development, and GitHub Copilot experiences in a large TypeScript and Rust codebase, focusing on delivering and iterating features for VS Code and Copilot. Opportunity to shape technical direction, implement features, and improve reliability, quality, and user experience.

Responsibilities

  • Identify product and engineering opportunities, helping define what to build through user feedback, experimentation, and technical insight.
  • Shape technical direction within your area, balancing near-term product needs with long-term maintainability.
  • Lead hands-on design, implementation, testing, and delivery of VS Code features, coordinating contributors and partner-team dependencies as needed.
  • Own outcomes after release: understand adoption, investigate quality issues, and use telemetry, evaluations, and user feedback to guide improvements.
  • Improve responsiveness and reliability through profiling, debugging, and automated testing; strengthen the tools that let the team experiment and ship confidently.
  • Work in the open: discuss designs publicly, investigate community-reported issues, and collaborate directly with developers and extension authors.
  • Mentor engineers and improve technical decisions through constructive design and code reviews.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, JavaScript, or TypeScript or RUST OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:JavaScriptTypeScriptRust
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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