14 hours ago
Vancouver, CanadaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and develop production-scale AI capabilities, Copilot orchestration and runtime systems, multimodal and agentic experiences, and computer and tool-use capabilities.
- Write secure, maintainable, and well-tested code; conduct insightful code reviews and coach other engineers.
- Lead architecture and design decisions across performance, scalability, resiliency, cost, disaster recovery, security, privacy, accessibility, and regulatory requirements.
- Define test strategies, including regression prevention, security invariants, negative cases, and improvements to test-suite reliability and speed.
- Drive project and release planning, feature-flag experiments, automated deployment, rollback plans, and capacity planning.
- Serve as an on-call directly responsible individual, improve telemetry and observability, lead incident retrospectives, and implement corrective actions.
- Use AI tools across the software development lifecycle while owning the quality of generated code and documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field and 4+ years of technical engineering experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud background-check and applicable customer or government security-screening requirements.
- Preferred: master’s degree plus 6+ years of experience, or bachelor’s degree plus 8+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Experience shipping internet-scale, low-latency, high-throughput systems or AI products.
- Ability to communicate technical details across organizational boundaries and work end-to-end from planning and design through release and service operation.
- Strong collaboration, problem-solving, results orientation, adaptability, and ability to work through ambiguity.
Benefits
- The role is based in Canada and offers a typical base pay range of CAD $114,400–$203,900 per year.
- The position is open for at least five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until filled.
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer and provides religious and disability accommodation support during the application process.
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