Microsoft
Software Engineer II
$102K–$219K
Redmond, WA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 16, 2026
- Experience
- Required: 2+ years technical engineering experience; preferred alternatives: 3+ years with a master’s degree, or 5+ 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
Builds and operates production features for Microsoft’s Copilot Studio agent runtime, including agent orchestration, backend services, and real-time voice experiences.
What you'll do
- Design, implement, ship, and support reliable features across the agentic stack, including Copilot Studio runtime capabilities.
- Develop low-latency voice agents and scalable backend services; contribute to service lifecycle activities such as CI/CD, infrastructure as code, on-call, and reliability.
- Collaborate across engineering, AI/ML, product, and design; participate in reviews and embed Responsible AI practices.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree and 3+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree and 5+ years, or equivalent experience.
- Experience with cloud technologies (Azure preferred), agent frameworks or LLM orchestration, Copilot Studio or agent runtimes, real-time voice/speech, CRM/contact center systems, or production cloud services.
Pay
USD $102,100 - $202,200 per year (base pay); USD $133,800 - $219,200 per year (base pay)
Tools
C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Python, Azure, REST, gRPC
AI focus
Builds agentic customer engagement capabilities, including agent orchestration, planning, grounding, memory, knowledge retrieval, tool invocation, and real-time voice agents; embeds Responsible AI practices.
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