The Senior Software Engineer will join the Azure Bot Service team at Microsoft, which is responsible for routing millions of messages across various channels and powering conversational and autonomous agents. This role focuses on providing technical leadership for AI workstreams, building high-quality features, and coaching other engineers. The team is positioned to analyze and productize new AI capabilities in a rapidly evolving landscape. The engineer will collaborate with customers to integrate Azure Bot Service into their AI strategies.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.

• Collaborates with stakeholders to determine user requirements.
• Drives design documentation and dependency identification.
• Builds, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and maintains high-quality code.
• Designs and runs experiments to evaluate effectiveness of changes.
• Partners with PMs to deliver project and release plans.
• Acts as DRI and participates in on-call rotations.
• Proactively adopts new technologies to improve reliability, performance, and observability.

• Employees at Microsoft are often offered comprehensive, “world-class” benefits—including health and mental-wellness programs, competitive pay with bonuses and stock awards, and retirement/savings options. Time-off and flexibility are common, with generous vacation and holidays, parental and caregiver leave, and flexible work schedules, alongside learning support, employee resource groups, product discounts, and matching-gifts/volunteering programs. Specific benefits can vary by region.