Senior Software Engineer_

Redmond

The Microsoft Copilot Studio Agents team is on a mission to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) automations into business applications, simplifying workflows, extending human ability and increasing productivity. Utilizing automated triggers and asynchronous large language model (LLM) orchestration, agents will address previously intractable problems. We are looking for a talented backend Senior Software Engineer that would design and build intuitive experiences that enable users to create and deploy agent capabilities that solve real world problems at scale.

The Power Platform always places the customer and quality at the core democratizing the AI space by empowering citizens to make smarter, faster decisions relying on the ecosystem of Power Apps, Power BI and Power Automate. The Copilot Studio is also the extension mechanism for Microsoft’s family of Copilots serving millions of end users.

We are a multi-disciplinary, highly collaborative team that has been designed for maximum autonomy of execution while maintaining strategic alignment with our overall organizational objectives, where everyone's ideas and contributions are valued and you are empowered to innovate and take ideas from concept to scale.

You can learn more about agent capabilities in Microsoft Copilot Studio here: **s/copilotstudiobuild24**

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

**Responsibilities**

+ Design and implement well-defined interfaces across multiple components, code reviews, leveraging data/telemetry to make decisions.

+ Drives negotiations with partner and peer engineering teams and pushes agenda forward while finding compromises and alternatives with Product Owners.

+ Writing and maintaining End to End, Integration and Unit tests for the features and choosing the right style of tests to provide confidence in a feature being shipped.

+ Demonstrates technical leadership through driving direction, influencing strategies, and developing innovative technical solutions through prototypes.

+ Gain a working understanding of Microsoft as a business and collaborate with engineers from peer and partner teams in order to contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for our users.

+ Striving for a better engineering culture focusing on cleaner, performant codebase with clear and frequent code reviews, building and updating wikis for processes, driving the root cause and running services at high scale.

+ Develops and shares best practices that emphasize performance, reliability and reusability.

+ Embody our culture and values

**Qualifications**

**Required Qualifications:**

+ Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience coding using at least one of the following: C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python

+ OR equivalent experience.

+ 2+ years working in an environment, building, supporting and monitoring software as a service (SaaS) services and applications.

**Other Requirements:**

+ Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

+ Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

+ 2+ years experience developing distributed applications with C#.

+ Working understanding of Leveraging LLM to build Bots/Copilots

+ Experience working on commercial software applications or services and a understanding of fundamentals like multi-threading, immutability, composition.

+ Experience in developing SaaS solutions.

+ Experience in the Microsoft Dynamics CRM ecosystem, or equivalent

+ Understanding of application lifecycle management, and maintaining, and utilizing Continuous Deployment to different clouds.

+ Prioritizes learning and growing in a rapidly changing landscape.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $153,600 - $250,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: icrosoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until July 18, 2024.

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