Senior Software Engineer Azure Bot Service Team

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities more innovation more openness in a cloud-enabled world. The Managed Apps & Agents group is a rapidly growing organization that is responsible for Azure Bot Service and more. Microsoft is considered one of the leaders in Software as a Service in the world of business applications and this organization is at the heart of how business applications are designed and delivered.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Azure Bot Service team which is responsible for handling the routing of millions of messages across various channels (Facebook Messenger DirectLine Email Slack etc.) and is an underpinning of various products within Microsoft. Our product powers millions of both conversational and autonomous agents every day as part of the Copilot Studio and other products within Microsoft.

With the rapid pace of AI innovation our team is uniquely positioned within Microsoft and the industry to analyze experiment with and productize new AI capabilities. As a Senior Software Engineer your role will be to provide technical leadership for AI workstreams build features with high quality and maintainability alongside teams of other engineers operate our AI services and coach other engineers on the team. You will work across Microsoft to help teams build agents and you will work with customers to determine how Azure Bot Service and agents fit into their AI strategies.

Microsofts 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.

• Collaborates with stakeholders to determine user requirements.

• Drives design documentation and dependency identification.

• Builds optimizes debugs refactors and maintains high-quality code.

• Designs and runs experiments to evaluate effectiveness of changes.

• Partners with PMs to deliver project and release plans.

• Acts as DRI and participates in on-call rotations.

• Proactively adopts new technologies to improve reliability performance and observability.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelors 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.

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 6 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 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 building generative AI applications or services.
• Experience with the Power Platform or M365 Enterprise development.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119800 - $234700 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 $160200 - $261000 per year.

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

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