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As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and ship core components of the agentic sales platform that field sellers and partner teams rely on daily. You own features end to end, from prototype to production, working across orchestration, grounding, evals, observability, and the SDK surfaces other engineers build on. You take real ownership of what you ship, help raise the bar for how agents are built and evaluated on the team, and grow your influence as you go.
This role is for an engineer with a bias for action who already builds with Claude Code, Codex, MCP, or open-source agent stacks, and who follows the frontier closely. If that's you, this role gives you the surface area to do it at a global scale.
Responsibilities
Design and build major components of our agentic sales platform: orchestration, tools and skills, grounding, evals and observability, and model routing.
Own components end to end, from prototype to production, including the harder judgment calls within your area.
Partner with AI Foundry, Microsoft Research, Substrate, and the Copilot organization to use shared primitives like agent SDKs, eval harnesses, content safety, and telemetry.
Contribute to the eval and Responsible AI bar for shipping agents in the Sales surface, with a focus on production-grade quality.
Help raise the agent-engineering bar through code review, design review, and mentoring peers.
Bring agentic patterns into the team's work and share what you learn.
Qualifications
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
Experience with at least one of C#, TypeScript, Python; comfortable across all three.
Experience owning and ship significant features or architectural components end to end.
1+ year shipping LLM-based or agent-based systems in production, including hands-on experience with evals, observability, and debugging.
Production experience with one or more major agent stacks such as Microsoft 365 Agents SDK, AutoGen, Magentic-One, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, Anthropic SDK with MCP, or Semantic Kernel.
Experience collaborating across teams: you can align with partners and move work forward together.
Proficiency in AI-native development working within Agent Harnesses (GitHub Copilot CLI, Coding Agents), authoring Markdown specs/ADRs and YAML configs as Agent-consumable inputs, orchestrating multi-step Agentic workflows across the SDLC, and reviewing Agent-generated code and PRs with production-grade rigor.
Experience shipping quickly with agentic tools
Experience with public artifacts that show how you build with agents, such as shipped side projects, open-source contributions, technical writing, or talks.
Experience standing up evals or observability for non-deterministic systems.
Experience contributing to the safety posture of a multi-tenant system, including prompt-injection defenses and audit trails.
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 $160,200 - $261,000 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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- 4+ years of technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python, or equivalent experience
- Ability to meet Microsoft Cloud Background Check and applicable customer or government security screening requirements
- Experience with at least one of C#, TypeScript, or Python; comfortable across all three
- Experience owning and shipping significant features or architectural components end to end
- At least 1 year shipping LLM-based or agent-based systems in production, including evaluations, observability, and debugging
- Production experience with a major agent stack such as Microsoft 365 Agents SDK, AutoGen, Magentic-One, LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, Anthropic SDK with MCP, or Semantic Kernel
- Experience collaborating across teams and aligning partners to move work forward
- Proficiency in AI-native development using agent harnesses, Markdown specifications or ADRs, YAML configurations, multi-step agentic workflows, and rigorous review of agent-generated code
- Experience shipping quickly with agentic tools
- Public artifacts demonstrating agent development, such as shipped side projects, open-source contributions, technical writing, or talks
- Experience establishing evaluations or observability for non-deterministic systems
- Experience contributing to the safety posture of a multi-tenant system, including prompt-injection defenses and audit trails
Microsoft Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, with preventive care coverage, vision options, and annual out-of-pocket limits. Feedback suggests medical, mental-health, and disability support are a major strength of the package.
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Parental & Family Support — Family support is expansive, including parental leave, family caregiver leave, child-care assistance, family concierge services, fertility options, and college-advising support for eligible employees. Feedback suggests these benefits meaningfully ease caregiving and family planning demands.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing resources include counseling and employee-assistance services, wellness reimbursements, product discounts, and charitable-matching programs. Feedback suggests these extras complement core benefits and support day-to-day quality of life.
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