Software Engineer II

Microsoft’s Path team helps customers along their journey from the initial idea to the final realization of their goals – from Idea to Plan to Done.

We are responsible for collaborative work management products including Microsoft Project, Planner, To Do, and Visio. With Project and Planner, we help customers collaborate effectively to navigate complexity, determine critical paths, and orchestrate their plans to achieve more. With To Do and Tasks, we help customers capture, prioritize, and complete their aspirations and goals along their path to success. And with Visio, we help customers model and conceptualize information pathways that flow through process diagrams, organizational charts, and more to visualize what is and what can be. Collectively, we're responsible for an incredible portfolio of products and services that help guide people and organizations along their journey to achieve more. 

We are looking for a Software Engineer II to join Path Engineering team under OPG (Office product group).  By fusing Microsoft’s Copilot technology and generative AI platform with the Path team’s products, you’ll help create the future of how customers get things done – from diagrams and designs for systems, to generative plans for work and tasks to be done. You’ll reach tens of millions of customers with the technology you create and inspire hundreds of engineers on the team to go beyond what’s possible and create the work management platform for the future. 

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. By integrating the power of generative AI with tools for workflow management you will directly contribute to that mission empowering customers to achieve at a pace and scale beyond what has previously been considered possible. 

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

 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.
• 2+ years of experience developing distributed web service applications with highly concurrent server-side code. 

 Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience creating, releasing, and evolving large commercial software components or products at scale. 
• Experience with Serverless infrastructure, NOSQL databases and high volume / throughput web applications and their design.   
• Experience collaborating across teams to deliver complete features and end-to-end customer experiences.  
• An interest in generative AI and a basic understanding of its challenges, limitations, and best practices.
• A high level of customer empathy and willingness to learn.

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $98,300 - $193,200 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $127,200 - $208,800 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

Microsoft will accept applications and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

• Design and develop large-scale distributed software services and solutions. 

• Knowledge of how products and services work, with a history of developing, deploying and evolving products in a dev-ops managed production environment. 

• You will design features and capabilities to enable experiences for millions of users, interacting with the service through dedicated Web and mobile clients, and through Teams. 

• Carry out quick technology “spikes” (or proofs of concepts, flighting) to create value in new features and service. 

• Working in an agile and collaborative environment, you will interact with many of the other major Microsoft 365 teams to build cross service integrations, such as Teams, SharePoint, and Exchange. 

• Effective communication skills, be it when you write code, send emails, or explain complex technical issues to non-technical co-workers. 

• A desire to make things better, whether it be in how we optimize our inner dev loop, how we test our code, or how we can make deployments happen at light speed.  You're always looking for ways we can be better as a team. 

• Reliable and responsible work ethic. You enjoy taking on responsibility within your role, on projects you have initiated, and you also enjoy bringing out the best in your teammates. 

• Analyzing and improving service efficiency and reliability. 

• Embody our Culture and Values