Principal Software Engineer - Copilot Studio

Overview

Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers to levels they cannot achieve anywhere else. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness in a cloud-enabled world. The Business & Industry Copilots group is a rapidly growing organization that is responsible for the Microsoft Dynamics 365 suite of products, Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse, AI Builder, Microsoft Industry Solution and more.

Microsoft is considered one of the leaders in Software as a Service in the world of business applications and this organization is at the heart of how business applications are designed and delivered.

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer - Copilot Studio to join our team!

The Copilot Studio Platform team sits at the heart of this mission. We are responsible for the execution, management, and runtime foundations that power copilots across Microsoft 365, Dynamics, and multiple other Microsoft products. This includes building and operating the management plane that enables secure provisioning, governance, lifecycle management, observability, and operational control at global scale, alongside highly scalable data and execution planes.

We are driving the next wave of innovation in agentic AI, delivering a distributed execution environment designed to scale to billions of agentic executions.

As a Principal Software Engineer - Copilot Studio on the platform leadership team, you will set architectural direction across services, define operational and reliability standards, and shape how agentic systems are built, managed, and run across Microsoft.

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
Provide technical leadership for the architecture, design, and delivery of scalable, secure, and highly reliable platform services within Copilot Studio.
Drive end to end system thinking by collaborating with cross functional partners to deliver scenarios spanning Azure, Microsoft 365, and the Power Platform.
Mentor and influence engineers across the organization, raising the bar on design quality, technical rigor, and inclusive engineering culture.
Partner with Product Management and engineering leadership to align technical strategy and investment decisions with long term product vision and customer outcomes.
Define, operationalize, and champion engineering best practices across CI/CD, reliability, observability, and live site operational excellence at scale.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ years of experience working on AI-related systems.

Other Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field AND 10+ years of technical engineering experience, including coding in one or more of the following languages: C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field AND 12+ years of equivalent technical engineering experience
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience designing, building, or operating services on Azure or other large-scale cloud platforms.
• 7 + years of professional software engineering experience building or operating production services.
• Designed or led the architecture of at least one large-scale distributed system used in production (e.g., cloud platform, backend service, or runtime system).
• Been Responsible for defining or enforcing engineering best practices such as CI/CD, reliability, observability, or live-site operations for a team or service.
• Have hands-on experience building, deploying, or operating services on a public cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform).

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Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 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 $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

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