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As Microsoft 365 and Copilot continue to grow at unprecedented scale, SWIQ provides the foundational intelligence that connects product experiences, infrastructure, operations, and business outcomes, enabling teams to build, operate, and innovate with confidence.\nThe SWIQ Performance Team is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help build and scale the intelligence platforms that power Microsoft 365 and Copilot economics. You will develop trusted systems that connect product usage, service dependencies, infrastructure consumption, operational telemetry, and Finance-aligned cost models into a unified economics foundation. These platforms enable engineering, finance, and business teams to understand cost drivers, optimize investments, and make data-driven decisions at cloud scale.\nIn this role, you will lead the design and delivery of scalable distributed systems and intelligence solutions that transform complex operational and business signals into actionable insights. You will partner across engineering, product, and business teams to improve visibility into the relationships between cost, quality, reliability, efficiency, and customer value across rapidly evolving Copilot and AI-powered experiences.\nYou will also help advance AI-native transformation by applying agents, intelligent automation, and machine-assisted decision making to improve operational efficiency, identify optimization opportunities, and accelerate engineering outcomes.\nMicrosoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. 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\nDesign and deliver scalable platforms that connect operational telemetry, product usage, infrastructure consumption, and financial data into trusted intelligence and decision-support systems.\n\nDrive architecture, implementation, and operational excellence for large-scale cloud services that power Microsoft 365 and Copilot economics insights.\n\nDevelop solutions that improve visibility into cost drivers, resource efficiency, service dependencies, and business outcomes, helping teams make data-driven decisions.\n\nApply AI, agents, and intelligent automation to streamline operational workflows, identify optimization opportunities, and improve engineering productivity.\n\nPartner across engineering, product, finance, and business teams to translate complex requirements into scalable platform capabilities and measurable business impact.\n\nLead technical initiatives, influence architecture decisions, and drive adoption of shared platform capabilities across multiple teams.\n\nImprove platform reliability, observability, data quality, and operational efficiency through engineering best practices and automation.\n\nContribute to technical excellence, and help establish reusable patterns and capabilities that increase organizational effectiveness.\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 Python\n\nOR 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.\n\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 Python\n\nOR 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\n\nOR equivalent experience.\n\nExperience building scalable software systems that process large volumes of data.\n\nDemonstrated ability to drive complex technical initiatives from design through production deployment and measurable results.\n\nSolid software engineering fundamentals, including distributed systems design, cloud architecture, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.\n\nExperience collaborating across teams and disciplines to solve ambiguous technical problems and deliver customer and business value.\n\nExperience leveraging data, analytics, observability, or AI technologies to improve service performance, operational efficiency, or business decision making.\n\nPassion for AI-native engineering and automation, including applying intelligent systems to improve engineering productivity and operational effectiveness.\n\nProven ability to contribute to a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.\n\nExperience with FinOps, Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), business intelligence, capacity planning, or cloud economics.\n\nExperience building and operating large-scale cloud platforms, data platforms supporting mission-critical services.\n\nExperience with large language models (LLMs), agent platforms.\n\nExperience developing data-driven insights platforms.\n\nExperience establishing engineering standards, operational practices, automation frameworks, or governance models for cloud-scale services.\n\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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