Overview The Crowd Intelligence Platform (CIP) team, part of the MAI platform organization, is building an AI‑driven testing platform that ensures high quality for Microsoft AI products such as Bing, Copilot, MSN, and Edge, both pre‑release and in production. The platform leverages Agentic AI to enable scalable, intelligent testing across diverse product surfaces.
We are looking for a Software Engineer II to help strengthen, scale, and evolve the agentic testing platform so it can reliably support a wide variety of MAI products. This role focuses on platform robustness, scalability, performance, and developer experience, with direct impact on how quickly teams can identify, debug, and fix issues.
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Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50-mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

• Responsibilities- Build and enhance the core agentic testing platform, ensuring it is robust, reliable, and scalable across multiple MAI products.
• Develop new platform features and tooling that help users and product teams debug issues quickly and effectively.
• Improve platform efficiency and performance as a continuous effort, optimizing workflows, execution time, and resource usage.
• Partner closely with data scientists, product managers, and partner teams to translate testing needs into scalable engineering solutions.
• Contribute to end‑to‑end ownership of features, from design and implementation to deployment and production support.
• Ensure high engineering quality through clean design, testing, monitoring, and operational excellence.

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python.OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of professional software engineering experience, building and shipping production systems.
• Solid proficiency in object‑oriented programming and system design.
• Experience building scalable backend systems, services, or platforms.
• Ability to work in a fast‑paced, ambiguous environment and collaborate across multiple teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with distributed systems, cloud services, or platform engineering.
• Familiarity with AI/ML‑powered systems, agent‑based architectures, or workflow orchestration.
• Experience building developer‑facing tools or platforms that improve debugging and productivity.
• Solid interest in product quality, reliability, and automation.

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This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.