18 hours ago
Vancouver, CanadaMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build Copilot and Teams messaging experiences that support collaboration, understanding, decisions, and action.
- Build infrastructure for AI-powered experiences, including conversational context, grounding, retrieval, and intelligent agent capabilities.
- Design, build, and operate distributed services at scale with attention to performance, reliability, security, privacy, efficiency, and cost.
- Own features end to end through design, implementation, testing, deployment, telemetry, and production operations.
- Participate as a directly responsible individual in diagnosing issues, restoring service health, and improving reliability from production learnings.
- Use data and telemetry to make engineering decisions involving scalability, reliability, performance, maintainability, and cost.
- Collaborate with engineers and partner teams to deliver cohesive end-to-end capabilities.
- Champion agentic development practices and apply AI to improve engineering velocity, quality, operational efficiency, and support scenarios.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience with coding, or equivalent experience.
- Coding experience in one or more of 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: master's degree and 3+ years of experience, or bachelor's degree and 5+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
- Preferred experience with AI infrastructure, information retrieval, grounding, conversational systems, distributed systems, large-scale cloud services, high-throughput backend systems, storage, caching, event-driven or real-time data systems, reliability, observability, DevOps, incident response, and performance or cost optimization.
- Preferred experience with Generative AI, LLMs, RAG-based solutions, cloud-scale data platforms, and AI-driven improvements to productivity and customer experiences.
Benefits
- The typical base pay range is CAD $85,800–$169,300 per year across Canada.
- The position is open for a minimum of five days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the role is filled.
- Employment requires passing the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.
About Microsoft
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.