Software Engineer II

Software Engineer-II

Overview

Do you want to be part of a team that delivers innovative products and machine learning solutions to tens of millions of users across Microsoft every month? Are you excited by the opportunity to join a fast‑paced, high‑visibility, and diverse team operating in a highly competitive space? If so, this Software Development Engineer II role on the Microsoft Turing team may be a great fit for you.

The Microsoft Turing team is an innovative engineering and research organization advancing state‑of‑the‑art deep learning models across the full machine learning lifecycle. Within Turing, we are a fast‑paced, high‑impact experience team responsible for building end‑to‑end experiences for Microsoft 365 Copilot—from cutting‑edge frontend platforms to backend orchestration systems. Our work spans reasoning over user prompts, grounding in enterprise data, invoking tools and extensions, and synthesizing secure, compliant responses at scale.

As a member of the Microsoft Turing team, you will have a direct impact on product quality, shaping the daily experience of millions of users. You will design and build solutions using modern M365 Copilot UX frameworks, large‑scale orchestration systems, and experimentation platforms such as A/B testing frameworks, while collaborating closely with teams across distributed systems, data mining, and machine learning. You will have access to Microsoft’s extensive resources and work alongside world‑class engineers and researchers worldwide, with the autonomy and support to drive ideas from concept through experimentation, development, and continuous production deployment throughout the year.

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

• Driving projects from design through implementation, experimentation and finally shipping to our users.
• Understand scenarios, challenges, and issues in a feature area. Propose design, solutions, mitigations, and be responsible for metric-driven results.
• Work independently to implement, flight and ship features to different canvases and have impact on key metrics.
• Innovate feature ideas, analyze opportunities through data mining of Bing logs and user study.
• Understand all the metrics, able to get insights of what happened from real traffic scorecard and come up with improvement plan.
• Build dashboard and online tests to monitor mainstreamed features’ coverage, performance and availability.
• Collaboration with internal and external partner teams globally.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Motivated engineers with excellent architecture, design, coding, and debugging skills.
• Previous experience with full stack development will be a plus.
• Great design, problem solving, and data analysis skills, with demonstrated passion for quality, performance, and engineering excellence.
• Motivated and able to work independently as well in a collaborative team setting to research innovative solutions to challenging technical/business problems.
• At least 3+ years of industry experience with one or more of the following: large scale of Web development, App development, Distributed Systems and/or Information Retrieval.
• Good communication skills in English are preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ 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 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.
  • OR equivalent experience.

 

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

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

Experience Level

Mid Level