Software Engineer II

With Microsoft 365 Copilot, customers are expecting best in class AI tools to improve their productivity. The Copilot Pages and Notebooks team is hiring to help build out the fundamentals team that is responsible for managing REST APIs, engineering systems, and web application performance.

As a Software Engineer II in the Copilot Pages and Notebooks team, you will be responsible for making changes to ensure we have a scalable, reliable, and performant service. This opportunity will allow you to add automation, alerting, and monitoring to ensure the health of our service while working with others on the team to drive meaningful improvements to availability and latency of our services.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together 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

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
• Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
• Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
• Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments 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 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
• 2+ years of experience supporting a live service. Relevant experience can include being an on call engineer, working on deployment infrastructure, or managing livesite processes and procedures for a team.
• 2+ years working on service maturity and fundamentals. Relevant experience can include working on applying security best practices, working on reducing the cost of running a service, or working to apply industry best practices to an existing service.
• 2+ years working on measuring the reliability of an existing service and making direct technical contributions that resulted in the improvement of the availability of the service.
• 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:

• Experience working on projects to improve the quality of large scale services.
• Experience in TypeScript, JavaScript, and Node.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 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  

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 4, 2025.

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