Microsoft

Software Engineer II

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Redmond, WA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$102k - $219k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain LLM-powered agents that implement authorized work, execute tests, support code review, and remediate issues.
  • Design agent orchestration, tool integrations, context retrieval, durable state, interfaces, monitoring, and bounded execution with human approval controls.
  • Create LLM and agent evaluations, regression tests, traces, and failure analyses to qualify changes before release.
  • Monitor and maintain build pipelines, troubleshoot infrastructure-related failures, support owned services during incidents, and administer internal tools.
  • Drive cross-team engineering initiatives by defining requirements, estimating work, managing milestones, mitigating risks, coordinating releases, and validating outcomes against baselines.
  • Communicate roadmaps, status, and risks through reporting, newsletters, service reviews, and stakeholder forums.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include a master's degree with 3+ years of experience, or a bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
  • Proficiency in software engineering, debugging, and automated testing with C# or C++, plus working knowledge of big data, ML, NLP, or search technologies.
  • Hands-on experience building LLM-powered features, applications, or agents that use tools or execute multi-step workflows.
  • Experience debugging agent behavior with task-level tests, traces, and failure analysis, and distinguishing plausible output from reproducible engineering results.
  • Background in cloud services or DevOps, distributed systems, state management, observability, security, and reliability.
  • Experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub, developer tools, build and test infrastructure, CI integrations, automated code review, repair workflows, PowerShell, or open-source software.
  • Experience with multi-agent coordination, durable workflows, interrupted-task recovery, repository-aware retrieval, code understanding, model routing, or fallback strategies.
  • Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud Background Check and applicable customer or government security screening requirements.
  • Strong analytical, communication, collaboration, customer engagement, and independent delivery skills, including fluency in English.

Benefits

  • The typical U.S. base pay range is USD $102,100-$202,200 per year, with a separate San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metropolitan area range of USD $133,800-$219,200 per year.
  • Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.
  • The position is open for a minimum of 5 days and accepts applications on an ongoing basis until filled.

Tech Stack

Microsoft

About Microsoft

10,000+ employees

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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