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Microsoft · 2 days ago

Software Engineer II

Microsoft's Employee Voice & Engagement (EVE) team is focused on transforming work through real-time feedback and AI-powered insights. As a Software Engineer II, you will design and build AI-driven employee experiences while integrating with M365 Copilot patterns and orchestrating intelligent workflows.

Agentic AIApplication Performance ManagementArtificial Intelligence (AI)Business DevelopmentDevOpsInformation ServicesInformation TechnologyManagement Information SystemsNetwork SecuritySoftware
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Responsibilities

Design & build backend services and APIs that are reliable, observable, secure, and performant
Build intuitive, AI‑driven experiences by composing services with inference, orchestration, and guardrails
Build AI prompt evaluation pipelines and model / prompt deployment gates
Own feature areas end‑to‑end: requirements shaping, design reviews, implementation, testing, rollout, and telemetry
Implement cloud-native infrastructure on Azure with a focus on reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
Instrument services end‑to‑end with structured logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and dashboards to ensure operability and rapid incident triage
Collaborate across disciplines (PM, Frontend, Data/People Science, SRE) to land pragmatic, data‑informed trade‑offs
Operate what you build: participate in on‑call, incident triage, and post‑incident improvements (prevention over recurrence)
Document and share designs, patterns, and learnings; contribute to a supportive, inclusive team culture
Bring your experience to a vibrant team through design review, code review and mentoring while helping the team build an inclusive culture where everyone can do their best work
Work with team members within and outside of the team to disambiguate complex problems
Take ownership of component design decisions working with product owners and dependencies
Define and build systems and strategies to ensure quality, performance, simplicity, durability, scalability, and maintainability
Embody our Culture and Values

Qualification

C#AzureWeb applicationsAI-driven workflowsService designCodingDebuggingLearning new technologiesProblem solving

Required

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience

Preferred

Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
2+ years of professional experience building, delivering, and maintaining web applications or services (Azure or comparable cloud)
Demonstrated experience shipping at least one production service or feature end-to-end, including deployment and operational support
Solid proficiency in .NET and C#
Technical abilities around service design, coding, debugging, and problem solving
Exposure to agentic/AI‑driven workflows
Prompt and Model Evaluation Frameworks and practices
Azure Cloud Infrastructure Experience
Commitment to delivering the best experience for customers
Enjoy learning and ramping up on new technologies quickly

Benefits

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation.

Company

Microsoft

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H1B Sponsorship

Microsoft has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (9192)
2024 (9343)
2023 (7677)
2022 (11403)
2021 (7210)
2020 (7852)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$1M
Key Investors
Technology Venture Investors
2022-12-09Post Ipo Equity
1986-03-13IPO
1981-09-01Series Unknown· $1M

Leadership Team

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Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO
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Vukani Mngxati
Chief Executive Officer - Microsft South Africa
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