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Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft· Software Engineering
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Redmond, WA$119.8k - $234.7kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Senior Software Engineer on the Copilot and Agents Core Platform team building a scalable runtime platform for AI agents in Microsoft 365. Focus on architecture and development of next-generation agent runtime platform, long-running tasks, extensibility at scale, and multi-agent collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • AI-native engineering: Champion responsible use of AI across the SDLC, improve team productivity with AI tools, and ensure accountability for AI-generated artifacts.
  • Raise engineering quality and reliability: Lead code reviews, debugging, incident retrospectives, telemetry practices, and continuous improvements in code quality, testability, security, and maintainability.
  • Architecture and cross-team design: Guide complex system design, evaluate technology choices, manage dependencies, and ensure solutions meet scalability, reliability, performance, cost, and compliance requirements.
  • Delivery and live-site health: Drive project execution, safe deployments, observability, incident response, customer-focused decision making

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, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

Skills

Required:AI governance and responsible AI practicesCode reviews and reliability engineeringSystem architecture and APIs

Benefits

  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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