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Our platform enables AI-powered experiences to reason over business data, take actions securely, orchestrate complex workflows, and deliver measurable business outcomes.\nWe are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help shape the future of intelligent business applications by building the runtime, execution, and extensibility platform that powers AI-driven workflows at global scale. This role offers the opportunity to work on highly distributed cloud services, solve challenging systems problems, and influence foundational investments across Dataverse, Power Platform, Dynamics 365, and Microsoft's AI ecosystem.\nMicrosoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. We come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals.\nResponsibilities\nDesign, build, and operate distributed cloud services that power Dataverse Runtime and support mission-critical customer workloads around the world.\n\nDevelop platform capabilities that enable AI agents, copilots, and intelligent applications to securely access enterprise data, execute business logic, and automate real-world business processes.\n\nLead the design and implementation of reliability, scalability, security, performance, and operational excellence improvements across core runtime services.\n\nDrive technical architecture, design reviews, and engineering decisions across multiple feature areas and partner teams.\n\nPartner with engineers across Power Platform, Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365, Azure, and AI platform teams to deliver platform capabilities that unlock new AI-powered experiences.\n\nOwn services throughout the full engineering lifecycle, including design, implementation, deployment, monitoring, live-site support, and continuous improvement.\n\nAct as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) for production services, participating in on-call rotations, incident mitigation, root cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements.\n\nLeverage AI-powered engineering tools and workflows to improve development velocity, code quality, operational effectiveness, and engineering productivity.\n\nMentor engineers and help establish best practices for modern software engineering, AI-assisted development, operational excellence, and technical leadership.\n\nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor'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 PythonOR equivalent experience.\n\nOther Requirements:\nAbility 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:\nMicrosoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nMaster's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or PythonOR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python \nOR equivalent experience. \n\nExperience developing software using C#, Java, C++, Python, or similar programming languages.\nExperience driving technical initiatives that span multiple services, components, or engineering teams.\nSolid problem-solving skills and the ability to diagnose and resolve complex production issues.\nExperience with service operations, monitoring, incident response, and operational excellence practices.\nDemonstrated ability to effectively leverage modern AI-powered development tools and workflows throughout the software engineering lifecycle, including design, implementation, testing, debugging, operational investigation, and productivity optimization.\nPassion for continuous learning and adapting to emerging technologies, engineering practices, and AI-enabled development approaches.\nExperience building large-scale SaaS platforms serving enterprise customers.\nExperience with Azure services, cloud-native architectures, microservices, distributed messaging systems, storage systems, and large-scale data platforms.\nExperience operating highly available production services at scale.\nExperience building developer platforms, extensibility frameworks, APIs, workflow engines, or execution runtimes.\nExperience designing or developing AI-powered applications, copilots, agents, agent orchestration frameworks, or intelligent workflow systems.\nExperience creating AI-enabled engineering solutions, including custom agents, skills, automation workflows, or developer productivity tools that improve engineering efficiency and software quality.\nExperience using AI technologies to accelerate incident investigation, root cause analysis, testing, deployment, operational excellence, or software delivery processes.\nTrack record of mentoring engineers and influencing technical decisions across organizational boundaries. \n#AGENT365 #CAP\nSoftware 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.\nCertain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:\nhttps://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay\nThis position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.\nMicrosoft is an equal opportunity employer. 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