Microsoft · 1 day ago
Software Engineer II - Office AI Platform
Redmond, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$101K/yr - $199K/yr
2+ years expMicrosoft is a leading technology company known for its innovative products and solutions. The Software Engineer II on the Office AI Platform team will design and implement core features and platform components for Microsoft 365 Copilot, ensuring high performance and reliability across Office applications.
Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
Responsibilities
Design, implement, test, and ship platform components used by multiple Office apps (client or service), with emphasis on performance, reliability, and maintainability
Collaborate with PMs and partner teams to translate requirements into design docs and execution plans; own feature delivery end‑to‑end
Add high‑quality telemetry, logging, and dashboards; use signals to validate behavior, detect regressions, and drive mitigations in production
Participate in on‑call rotations; triage incidents, perform root‑cause analysis, and deliver durable fixes and recovery mechanisms
Contribute to platform auth and security best practices and help roll out improvements safely
Develop and maintain high‑quality, maintainable code in one or more of C#, TypeScript/Node.js; contribute to unit and integration tests, as well as CI pipelines
Partner with others to improve local build/run, evaluations for Copilot workflows, and developer tooling that speeds platform iteration
Review Pull-Request (PR)s, share knowledge, and contribute to inclusive team culture; mentor early‑in‑career engineers
Document designs and operational playbooks for discoverability and supportability
Balance near‑term agility with longer‑term platform consistency; pay down engineering debt thoughtfully
Qualification
Required
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
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
Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with 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 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Involvement with open source community
Experience with various testing patterns, continuous integration and deployment processes, and continuous monitoring
Experience building products and GenAI agents that use frontier models, RAGs, context engineering etc
Company
Microsoft
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Funding
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