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We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is passionate about building secure, reliable, and highly scalable distributed systems and helping shape the future of enterprise agent management.\nAgent 365 brings together agent inventory, identity, ownership, lifecycle management, governance, administrative controls, and integrations across Microsoft's agent ecosystem. Internally, the governance architecture treats agents as governable enterprise actors with explicit identity, ownership, accountability, and standardized lifecycle states, while coordinating with systems including Microsoft Entra and agent platforms.\nAs a Senior Software Engineer, you will own meaningful end-to-end areas of the platform, from architecture and API design through implementation, deployment, observability, and production operations. 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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.\nResponsibilities\nOwn and deliver complex engineering features end to end, from technical design and implementation through validation, deployment, monitoring, and production support.\n\nDesign and build secure, scalable, highly available cloud services and APIs supporting Agent 365 management and governance scenarios.\n\nContribute to capabilities such as agent registry, lifecycle management, identity integration, ownership, governance actions, administrative APIs, and cross-platform orchestration. These are prominent areas in the current Agent 365 governance architecture.\n\nDrive technical design for ambiguous problems, make sound engineering tradeoffs, and turn product requirements into maintainable architectures.\n\nWork across service boundaries and partner teams to define contracts, resolve dependencies, and deliver coherent end-to-end experiences.\n\nBuild with security, privacy, compliance, reliability, and operability as core design requirements, rather than treating them as afterthoughts.\n\nEstablish strong engineering fundamentals including automated testing, monitoring, telemetry, diagnostics, deployment safety, and incident readiness.\n\nDiagnose complex production issues and drive improvements that prevent recurrence.\n\nParticipate actively in design and code reviews and raise the engineering quality bar across the team.\n\nMentor other engineers through technical guidance, code reviews, design discussions, and hands-on collaboration.\n\nLeverage AI-assisted engineering tools and modern development practices to improve engineering velocity while maintaining a high quality bar.\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\nSolid software engineering fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, object-oriented/system design, concurrency, and distributed systems.\nDemonstrated experience designing and delivering production-quality services or large-scale software systems.\nSolid coding and debugging skills in one or more modern programming languages such as C#, Java, C++, Python, or TypeScript.\nExperience designing service APIs and working with distributed systems, cloud architectures, storage, authentication/authorization, or asynchronous workflows.\nSolid understanding of software quality practices including testing, telemetry, monitoring, reliability, and operational readiness.\nAbility to independently drive technically ambiguous projects from problem definition through production.\nSolid collaboration and communication skills, particularly when working across team and organizational boundaries. \nExperience building services on Microsoft Azure or another large-scale cloud platform.\nExperience with identity, authentication, authorization, policy, governance, or enterprise administration systems.\nExperience with Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Graph, Microsoft 365, or Power Platform.\nExperience designing and operating highly available distributed services at enterprise scale.\nFamiliarity with AI agents, agentic applications, LLM-based systems, or AI application platforms.\nExperience with service-to-service authentication, authorization models, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed workflow orchestration.\nSolid security mindset and experience with threat modeling, least-privilege design, auditing, or compliance-sensitive systems.\nExperience driving technical projects involving multiple engineering teams and complex dependencies.\n#CAP #Agent365 #A365\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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