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Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft
$119,800.00 - $234,700.00 / yr
relocation assistance, remote work
United States, Washington, Redmond
Mar 29, 2026
Overview

Microsoft 365 Enterprise Copilot was launched to support a fundamental shift in how people work, grow their careers, and find meaning in the workplace. As organizations navigate economic, demographic, societal, and AIdriven change, expectations around engagement, productivity, and impact continue to evolve. People want clarity, connection, and tools that help them do their best work.

Workforce Insights (WFI) is a core analytics and insights agentic experience within Microsoft 365 Copilot. It helps organizations understand workforce patterns, trends, and signals across work, collaboration, and organizational data. By providing trusted insights into who is in the organization, how teams are structured, and where people are located, WFI enables leaders, managers, and HR partners to make informed, datadriven decisions that support planning, organizational effectiveness, and scale.

We are a highly collaborative engineering team with strong ownership and accountability. Engineers work closely across Microsoft 365 to integrate with shared people and organizational data platforms, translating complex, ambiguous problems into scalable, highimpact solutions. This role requires navigating the rapidly evolving Copilot and LLM landscape, partnering deeply with product managers, and collaborating across teams-including contributing to shared codebases-to deliver durable, customerfocused platform capabilities.

We operate with an AIfirst engineering mindset. Engineers are encouraged to actively adopt and apply AI in their daytoday work to improve productivity, accelerate development, and simplify engineering workflows. At the same time, the team is expected to apply sound engineering judgment-building intelligent, trustworthy systems while raising the technical bar for how AIpowered experiences are designed, built, and operated at scale. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team.

This position is based at the Redmond campus with 3 days per week work in the office and 2 days per week work from home. Relocation assistance is available.

Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.



Responsibilities
  • Take ownership of evolving a productionscale, AIpowered experience-expanding scenarios, integrations, and platform capabilities to meet new customer needs and increase adoption.
  • Operate at the intersection of agentic AI, largescale analytics, and modern cloud platforms, influencing technical direction while delivering reliable enterprisegrade solution.


Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check:This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience withfull-stack understanding of distributed systems and microservices architectures.
  • 3+yearsof experience in design, coding, rapid prototyping, debugging, and problem-solving.
  • Solid understanding ofdistributed systems and microservices architectures, including building and operating multitenant, enterprisescale services.
  • Experience working with largescale data and analytics platforms, including ingestion, aggregation, and serving of highcardinality organizational or people data.
  • Proven ability to deliver crossplatform, full-stack, and crossservice integrations, particularly in environments with shared platforms and dependencies.
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving clarity in crossgroup scenarios, with experience collaborating across product, platform, and engineering teams.
  • Demonstrated focus on customer trust, reliability, and quality, especially in datadriven or insightsbased experiences.
  • Familiarity with AIpowered systems, including LLMbased experiences or Copilot integrations, is a solid plus.
  • Experience contributing to or operating within shared codebases and platforms, balancing local ownership with platformlevel impact.

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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $158,400 - $258,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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