Job Description

Overview

Join the Microsoft Turing team and help shape the future of enterprise productivity with AI. Do you want to be part of a team that delivers innovative products and AI-powered solutions across Microsoft to hundreds of millions of users every month? Does the opportunity to join a fast-paced, high-visibility, diverse team in a highly competitive market sound exciting to you? If so, this Senior Software Engineer role with the Microsoft Turing team may be a great fit for you! 

The Microsoft Turing team is an innovative engineering and applied research team working on state-of-the-art deep learning models, large language models, and pioneering conversational search experiences. We build the core systems behind Microsoft 365 Copilot, a groundbreaking AI assistant used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Our work brings state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) into production at true enterprise scale, transforming how organizations work every day. We spearhead the platform and innovation for multiple core Copilot experiences across Microsoft’s ecosystem. We are a fast-growing team with a broad and evolving set of opportunities. Project assignments are shaped by your interests, experience, and strengths, allowing you to grow while working on problems that matter to you. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will have opportunities to design, build, and evolve production systems that power AI experiences at scale, collaborating closely with engineers and applied scientists to translate cutting-edge advances into robust, scalable, and reliable products. Our collaborative feature crews tackle challenges such as:

• Designing and developing advanced AI capabilities, including container execution and complex document generation.
• Building the core orchestration and runtime systems for Microsoft 365 Copilot.
• Engineering systems that enable multimodal, real-time, and agentic interactions.
• Building AI-driven computer and tool-use capabilities for enterprise-scale production environments.

Recent launches, such as the Analyst agent in Microsoft 365 Copilot, highlight the breadth of problems we solve across the stack. The Microsoft Turing team is a unique blend of engineering and research excellence, pushing the limits of large-scale deep learning on Microsoft’s world-class distributed training infrastructure. Software engineers and applied scientists partner closely to turn cutting-edge research into production-ready systems used across the company.

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.

Responsibilities

• AI-native delivery — Uses AI tools across the SDLC in a disciplined way, owns the quality of AI-generated code and docs, and helps the team do the same.
• Code quality and review — Writes secure, maintainable, well-tested code and raises the bar through timely, insightful reviews that coach other engineers.
• Architecture ownership — Leads design discussions and owns architecture for products/solutions, weighing trade-offs across performance, scalability, resiliency, COGS, and disaster recovery.
• Test strategy — Defines test plans that prevent regressions, cover security invariants and negative cases, and improve suite speed, reliability, and defect localization.
• Security and compliance by design — Applies "security as code," works with security partners on threat models and breach drills, and enforces privacy, accessibility, and regulatory requirements with auditable evidence.
• Planning and safe deployment — Drives project and release plans, runs experiments with feature flags, automates deployment toward zero-touch, and maintains rollback and capacity plans.
• Live-site reliability — Serves as DRI on-call, drives telemetry and observability, leads incident retrospectives, and implements repair actions that reduce recurrence.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor'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
• OR equivalent experience.

Other Requirements:

Ability 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:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master'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
• OR 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
• OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.  
• Ability and effectiveness working end-to-end in a challenging technical problem domain (plan, design, execution, continuous release, and service operation).
• Experience with shipping internet scale, low latency and high throughput systems AI products. 
• Self-driven, results oriented, high integrity, ability to work collaboratively, solve problems with groups, find win/win solutions and celebrate successes. 
• Customer/End-result/Metrics driven in design and development. 
• Keen ability and motivation to learn, enter new domains, and manage through ambiguity. 

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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $114,400 - CAD $203,900 per year.

Find additional pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Software Engineering IC4 - L'échelle salariale de base typique pour ce rôle dans l'ensemble du Canada est de 114,400 $ CAD à 203,900 $ CAD par année.

Pour plus d'information au sujet de la rémunération, veuillez cliquer ici:

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

Ce poste sera ouvert pendant au moins cinq jours et les candidatures seront acceptées de façon continue jusqu’à ce que le poste soit pourvu.

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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