# Software Engineer II

OverviewJoin the team that powers the world’s productivity! Excel is more than a spreadsheet. It is a global platform relied on by millions of people every day, from students and scientists to business leaders and innovators. As we embark on the next chapter of intelligent agentic experiences, you have the opportunity to help shape the future of how people work, analyze, and create with Excel. The Excel Agent team’s mission is to make expert-level Excel capabilities available to everyone. People describe what they need in plain language, and the agent works in their workbook to help accomplish the task. It understands workbook context and user intent, plans and completes multi-step tasks using Excel capabilities, and checks its results before reporting back. We are building an agent people can trust with real work, one that brings in the right context, supports repeatable processes, and delivers results that remain editable and easy to verify. As a Software Engineer II on the Excel Agent team, you will help design, build, and ship features that combine Excel’s core capabilities with agentic AI. You will own feature implementation, testing, and production support with minimal guidan

- **Id**: 4001389
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/microsoft-software-engineer-ii-51>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Vancouver, Canada
- **Countries**: CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-19T15:20:04Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T03:34:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 21
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8847
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Office & Productivity Software, Gaming Consoles, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 18
- **Name**: Microsoft
- **Domain**: microsoft.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/microsoft>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 84
- **Open postings**: 438
- **Ghost share**: 0.007
- **Stale share**: 0.594
- **Repost share**: 0.039
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 85800
- **Max**: 169300
- **Currency**: CAD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 119821

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Least Privilege** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Function Calling** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 21

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T03:34:14Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 62
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.827
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 21
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:late, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T05:46:50Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 119821
- **Is top pay**: no

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