Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Sep 26, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe Product teams in the Developer Division are focused on delivering core AI productivity features for developers building and maintaining apps across desktop, mobile, cloud, and web platforms. We take pride in creating tools and experiences that are widely adopted and highly effective. Our tools support a broad range of developers-including those in the community, education, open-source, and enterprise spaces.The era of AI is transforming developer tools. The Data and Artificial Intelligence (Data+AI) team in Microsoft's Developer Division is shaping the future of AI for developers. We collaborate with GitHub to bring AI assistance to every stage of coding-writing, debugging, diagnosing, testing, committing, and reviewing. Our team is a diverse, multidisciplinary group of data scientists, researchers, and software engineers passionate about using AI to enhance developer productivity. Fine-tuned AI models and intuitive user experiences are key to satisfaction, efficiency, and adoption. We're building on foundational Copilot work with agentic systems to deliver end-to-end developer experiences, both locally and in the Azure cloud. Our work ships in GitHub, Visual Studio, VS Code, and beyond.This position is for a Senior Software Engineer excited to work on developer scenarios and passionate about the opportunities AI models create and the strategies that turn them into products. The role calls for creativity, persistence, and critical thinking to work with emerging technologies. You'll collaborate with teams across IDEs, programming languages, data science, and internal and external LLM providers across geographies and time zones.The role focuses on two key areas: building tools and systems to measure and evaluate advanced AI productivity features at scale, and supporting forward-looking exploration through rapid prototyping and delivery of cutting-edge developer tools.Microsoft's mission is to empower every individual and every organization to achieve more. We come together with a growth mindset, innovate to support others, and collaborate to achieve shared goals. Every day, we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to foster a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive.
ResponsibilitiesDevelop secure, maintainable code and conduct proactive debugging.Review code for quality, test coverage, and compliance.Contribute to architecture and design decisions.Build and execute test strategies using AI tools.Apply engineering best practices for performance and scalability.Ensure security, privacy, and regulatory compliance.Plan and deploy features safely with rollback strategies.Run experiments and define success metrics.Support live site operations and improve monitoring.Collaborate to understand and meet user requirements.Embody Microsoft's Culture and Values | |