Microsoft

Software Engineer II

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5 days ago
Redmond, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$102k - $219k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, ship, support, and own the quality and delivery of production-grade features across the agentic stack.
  • Build agent orchestration, planning, grounding, memory, knowledge-source, connector, Tool Gateway, and control-plane capabilities in the Microsoft Copilot Studio runtime.
  • Develop low-latency real-time voice agents with speech-to-speech interaction, interruption handling, barge-in, and human handoff.
  • Build scalable and resilient backend services with high-throughput REST and gRPC APIs and participate in service operations, infrastructure, on-call, and reliability work.
  • Partner with AI/ML, product management, design, customers, and senior engineers through design and code reviews.
  • Embed fairness, safety, privacy, grounding, and reliability into software and AI capabilities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check.
  • Preferred: master’s degree with 3+ years of experience, or bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred: experience with cloud technologies, especially Azure; agent frameworks; LLM orchestration; RAG; tool or function calling; and prompt or grounding strategies.
  • Preferred: experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio, conversational platforms, agent runtimes, real-time voice or speech systems, ASR/TTS, telephony or media pipelines, or low-latency streaming.
  • Preferred: familiarity with CRM platforms, contact-center systems, customer data models, end-to-end production cloud delivery, and strong collaboration and communication skills.

Benefits

  • U.S. base pay is listed at $102,100-$202,200 per year, with a separate $133,800-$219,200 per year range for specified San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan locations.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The position is open for at least five days and accepts applications on an ongoing basis 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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