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Senior Software Engineer - AI Platform

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Redmond, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/20/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/18/2026
Overview

Imagine a world where AI agents seamlessly integrate into your daily work conversations, automatically handling tasks, providing insights, and connecting you with the right tools and information at exactly the right moment. That's the future we're building at Microsoft Teams AI Platform. Our team is creating the foundational platform that makes this vision possible - we're the engine behind Microsoft's strategy to make Teams the central hub where humans and AI collaborate effortlessly. From powering familiar experiences like Copilot and Calendar to enabling thousands of third-party integrations, our work directly impacts how millions of people get work done every day.

We're seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and operate the high-scale backend services that power Teams AI Platform. You'll build foundational infrastructure that enables AI agents to work seamlessly across Teams chats, channels, and meetings for millions of users worldwide. Working with partner teams, you'll dive deep into core Azure offerings and distributed systems to create features that delight customers while maintaining the highest standards of availability, reliability, and performance. You'll also influence new architectures and reusable service libraries that enable teams to build at scale.

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

  • Design, develop, and operate high-scale services that power the Teams AI Platform.
  • Dive deep into Azure technologies and distributed database systems.
  • Collaborate with internal and external partners to design features that drive user growth and engagement.
  • Develop features that delight customers while upholding the highest standards of availability, reliability, performance, and scalability-never compromising on engineering fundamentals.
  • Influence and define new designs, architectures, standards, and reusable service libraries that empower teams across Microsoft to build at scale.
  • Work closely with AI teams across Microsoft to share best practices, align on strategy, and leverage shared infrastructure and research.
  • Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.
  • Embody our culture and values .

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C , C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 3 years experience in distributed systems, client-server architecture, and distributed database technologies such as .NET Core, Redis, or Azure Cosmos DB or similar.
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 AND 6 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 8 years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C , C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • Experience working with M365 components like AAD, Exchange, Substrate, SharePoint.
  • Experience improving performance, availability and supportability of services.Experience increasing efficiencies through automation.
Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

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

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.

Salary : $119,800 - $258,000

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