Microsoft

Senior Software Engineer/ Principal Software Engineer - Copilot CLI

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2 days ago
Remote, United States or Redmond, WA, USASenior / Staff+
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Base Salary

$120k - $304k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own critical product and platform areas of Copilot CLI and the shared agent runtime.
  • Set technical and quality standards for agentic systems and developer-facing tooling.
  • Design and ship performant, reliable terminal experiences.
  • Use data, benchmarks, and direct user feedback to guide product iteration and investment.
  • Collaborate across organizational boundaries to enable other teams to build agentic products on a shared foundation.
  • Influence architecture, technical direction, and engineering standards beyond the immediate team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Coding experience in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Preferred: bachelor’s degree and 6+ years of technical engineering experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: hands-on production experience building and operating generative AI or agentic systems.
  • Preferred: 5+ years building and shipping customer-facing developer products.
  • Preferred: experience with systems design, performance, debugging, and evaluations for agentic systems.
  • Preferred: experience building terminal user interfaces or working with low-level terminal primitives.
  • Preferred: experience contributing to or leading open-source projects at scale.

Benefits

  • Base pay is listed for IC4 and IC5, with location-specific ranges for the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The position remains open for a minimum of five days and accepts applications until filled.
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Microsoft develops operating systems, productivity software, cloud services, developer tools, and consumer devices for individuals, enterprises, and governments. Its main products include Windows, Microsoft 365, Azure, Visual Studio/GitHub, Xbox, and LinkedIn; revenue comes from software subscriptions and licenses, cloud consumption, hardware sales, and advertising. Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is a public company traded on Nasdaq.

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