Software Engineer II- Copilot, Agents and Platforms

Overview

SPARTANs take on strategic projects and hard problems across M365 Core that remove agility and modernization barriers. This team enters unfamiliar problem spaces quickly, builds a defensible technical model, frames the work, and owns outcomes through deployment and measured impact. The role spans repositories, services, and organizational boundaries and must leave durable solutions, reusable patterns, documentation, and playbooks behind.

Engineers on this team operate with high autonomy and a strong product mindset. You will own large surface areas end-to-end, partner closely with product and design, and push to continuously raise the quality bar for both the CLI and the underlying agent platform used across GitHub and Microsoft.

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

• Technical depth: writes and reviews clean, testable, observable code and gains confidence quickly in unfamiliar codebases.
• Distributed-systems judgment: designs high-scale, low-latency, always-on services with explicit reliability, performance, cost, and compliance tradeoffs.
• Mission execution: converts open-ended asks into scoped projects with success criteria, milestones, risk management, deployment, and measurable impact.
• Influence without authority: aligns partners, negotiates dependencies, resolves disagreement, and lands changes across boundaries.
• Develop AI-first. Use AI tools with discipline across the whole development lifecycle, from requirements and design to code, tests, and operations. Own the quality of everything AI produces, and help the team raise its bar on AI-assisted engineering.
• Solid judgment: makes timely calls under incomplete information, states tradeoffs, and changes direction when evidence changes.
• Community leadership: help early-in-career engineers and other engineers, communicates crisply, and builds an inclusive environment.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors 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.

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:

• Masters 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 Bachelors 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.

• Hands-on experience building and operating generative AI or agentic systems in production, with direct ownership over quality, reliability, and iteration.

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping customer-facing developer products, with depth across platform/foundation systems and user-facing experiences

• Solid product mindset with a track record of owning ambiguous problem spaces and driving them to high-quality outcomes.

• Solid engineering fundamentals, including systems design, performance, and debugging in complex production environments.

• Experience designing, running, and optimizing evaluations for agentic systems, including tools, prompts, and agent loops.

• Experience contributing to or leading open-source projects at scale is a plus.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100 - $202,200 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 $133,800 - $219,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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.