Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is the conversational core of Microsoft Copilot—where enterprise AI meets productivity. It’s the default interface through which users summarize meetings, draft emails, generate insights from enterprise data, and coordinate with teams using natural language. As Microsoft accelerates its AI-first strategy, Chat isn’t just a feature—it’s the gateway. It’s the most visible and critical surface for AI-powered work.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design and deliver next-generation conversational experiences for Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat. Your mission is to accelerate delivery by shaping engineering systems that enable rapid iteration, continuous deployment, and resilient live-site operations. You’ll build frameworks for experimentation, automate release and monitoring processes, and embed AI-driven solutions to optimize workflows and elevate user experience. This role demands a solid balance of speed and reliability, ensuring seamless performance at global scale while collaborating with seasoned engineers and leaders for a product that is at the epicenter of Microsoft.

What makes this role unique:

• Impact at Scale: Contribute to one of Microsoft’s most visible AI-powered experiences used by millions globally.
• Engineering Systems Focus: Improve release systems, experimentation platforms, and live-site reliability for a flagship product.
• AI-Driven Innovation: Apply cutting-edge AI to transform development workflows and user experiences.
• Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Work closely with UX, AI, and platform teams to deliver breakthrough experiences.
• Balance Speed & Reliability: Enable rapid iteration without compromising trust and performance

How we work:

• Customer-obsessed & data-informed: We form bold hypotheses, ship safely, measure rigorously, and iterate.
• Fundamentals at the core: We invest in building solid foundations that enable teams to build and ship innovation.
• Engineering excellence: We invest in tests, telemetry, agentic coding enablement, and continuous hardening to earn the right to go faster.
• Inclusive at our core: We welcome diverse perspectives and design accessible experiences for a global audience.
• Outcomes over output: We celebrate learning and hold ourselves accountable to business and customer impact.

Microsoft’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.