Microsoft
Senior Software Engineer
$120K–$261K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years technical engineering experience; preferred alternatives: 6+ years with a Master's Degree, or 8+ years with a Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Designs and delivers reliable, observable platform services and orchestration capabilities for Microsoft 365 Copilot agents.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, debug, and improve platform code and services, including production systems used by other agents.
- Create design documents, identify dependencies, and collaborate with stakeholders and partner teams to deliver features and releases.
- Operate systems as a DRI, including on-call monitoring, incident response, safe deployment, telemetry, and reliability improvements.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in a listed language, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Nice to have
- Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in a listed language, or Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with high scale platform integrated with LLM.
Pay
USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year (base salary); USD $160,200 - $261,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Microsoft Graph, LLM
AI focus
Builds the agent platform for Microsoft 365 Copilot, including LLM-integrated capabilities, real-time multimodal orchestration, and durable long-running tasks.
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