Software Engineer II

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain AI-powered features and agentic workflows, owning feature delivery with minimal guidance.
• Contribute to technical designs and evaluate performance, scalability, reliability, security, and cost.
• Develop and execute unit, integration, regression, security, and AI evaluation tests; use telemetry to assess quality.
• Monitor and improve features using data, customer feedback, metrics, feature flags, safe rollouts, and rollback mechanisms.
• Use AI-assisted development tools responsibly and validate generated engineering artifacts.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, Applied Science, engineering, security, and privacy partners.
• Participate in on-call support, monitor service health, mitigate incidents, and contribute to root-cause fixes.
• Deliver secure, tested, maintainable code and contribute to deployment automation, monitoring, telemetry, and documentation.
• Learn relevant systems and practices and share knowledge with the team.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field and 2+ years of technical engineering experience coding in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python, or equivalent experience.
• Must meet applicable Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements, including the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire or transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree and 3+ years of technical engineering experience, or bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with AI or LLM-based development tools and familiarity with agentic systems, tool use, orchestration, planning, or evaluation.
• Experience developing and testing client or service software, including web applications, APIs, cloud services, or distributed systems.
• Experience with source control, automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, or production troubleshooting; effective communication and cross-functional collaboration.

Compensation

• Typical base pay range across Canada is CAD 85,800–169,300 per year.