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FULL_TIME
5-10

Senior Software Engineer - GenAI

11/21/2025

The Senior Software Engineer will work with stakeholders to determine user requirements and contribute to design documents. They will own their work end-to-end, from feature design through implementation and post-production support.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

10,001+ employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately 228,000 passionate employees worldwide.
About the Role
Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features. Contributes to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight. Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable. Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation. Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems. Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. Own your work end-to-end: from feature design and architecture through implementation, deployment, and post-production support. You'll be having full ownership for the quality, reliability, and long-term success of the systems you build. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. Hands-on experience working programmatically with Large Language Models (LLMs), including prompt engineering, model and inference configuration, agentic capabilities development (e.g., tool use/function calling) and orchestration, and deploying GenAI native solutions in large-scale production environments with observability, cost control and post-production monitoring and support OR equivalent experience. Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field and technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript or Python - OR equivalent experience. Proven experience designing and building cloud-native applications with deep proficiency in architectural patterns and trade-offs for distributed systems.
Key Skills
Software EngineeringLarge Language ModelsPrompt EngineeringModel ConfigurationCloud-Native ApplicationsDistributed SystemsCC++C#JavaJavaScriptPythonGoObservabilityCost ControlPost-Production Support
Categories
TechnologySoftwareEngineering
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