Software Engineering

Overview

Come build the core of Microsoft Copilot for enterprise with Microsoft 365 Copilot Team, where you'll join a collaborative group of engineers and data scientists pushing the frontier of large language models (LLMs) to improve the productivity of hundreds of millions of users around the world.

Our team is responsible for the core backend engineering systems that power Microsoft 365 Copilot delivering intelligence, quality, and transformative new features. We work at the intersection of research and engineering—advancing search technologies, and shipping impactful, LLM model-driven experiences in Microsoft 365.

We are a team that values diversity of multiple fronts and believes in deep collaboration bringing the best side of technology. Our team consists of engineers with expertise in large-scale software systems, data scientists, and machine learning.

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.

Responsibilities

• Maintain operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis.
• Write well designed code with an emphasis on quality, maintainability, scalability, and performance.
• Good understanding of Design and implement to enable real time, highly scalable, performant, and sustainable solutions.
• Deliver automated and well-tested features across different services and platforms.
• Use engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle to establish maintainable, reliable, and secure systems.
• Collaborate with teammates in various roles to plan and execute on key deliverables.
• Work in a culture of continuous improvement, adaptation, reflection, and growth.
• Learn quickly from your peers, projects, and interactions with customers.
• Provide on call support and monitor the health of services in production as part of DevOps culture.
• Embody our culture and values.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience designing, building, and running cloud services at large scale in C#, .Net or any high-level programming language.
• Excellent coding skills, strong understanding in OOPS, design patterns and their application.
• Self-learner with passion for technologies.Must know Secure by Design principles.
• Solid organization skills, a bias for action, and ability to deliver results.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and drive for clarity.
• Excellent ability to work efficiently, prioritize workflow, ramp quickly, and meet demanding deadlines.
• Self-learner with passion for technologies.Able to deep dive in areas and self-drive.
  

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

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field with proven experience coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• OR equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of cloud-computing environments like Microsoft Azure, AWS, GCP - Azure preferred.
• Hands on experience in an object-oriented programming language such as C#, Java or Scala.
• Solid software design and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with modern software services engineering practices such as testing in production, live monitoring, data driven engineering.
• Rapid prototyping and iteration skills the next line.
• Experience with web service development and familiar with related technologies.
• Experience building and shipping production grade software or services.
• Experience using agile methodologies or test-driven development (TDD).
  

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.