Software Engineer II

As a Software Engineer II in Agentic Engineering Productivity, you will build LLM-powered agents that turn intent into tested, reviewable changes, keep build pipelines and internal tools healthy, and help drive cross-team initiatives from plan to delivery. You will work with teams across infrastructure, security, and product services, owning your area from end to end. This individual-contributor role combines hands-on development with practical judgment about what to automate and where people stay in control.

Success means verified engineering outcomes, not simply more generated code. You will use measures such as validated task completion, review usefulness, human intervention and rework, cycle time, defects, and build pipeline health to guide decisions, and keep stakeholders informed of status and risks.

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.

Agentic engineering

• Build and maintain agent capabilities in your feature area that carry authorized work through implementation, test execution, code review, and remediation. Produce pull requests with attributable changes and evidence of what was checked, what passed, and what still needs to be reviewed.

• Design orchestration steps, tool integrations, and context retrieval for real repositories, build and test systems, and CI pipelines. Weigh design options and trade-offs, and build well-defined interfaces, durable state, and monitoring from the start.

• Write LLM and agent evaluations and regression tests grounded in engineering tasks. Debug failures across models, prompts, context, and tools to their root cause, and use results to qualify changes before they ship.

• Implement secure, bounded execution with scoped permissions, explicit approval for privileged actions, and human review before changes are accepted. Make agent actions observable and attributable, with stop conditions when authorization or evidence is insufficient.

Engineering systems and operations

• Monitor and maintain build pipelines for engineering systems, investigate and troubleshoot infrastructure-related build failures, engage partner teams on other failures, and help internal teams integrate with pipeline components.

• Provide IcM support for the services the team owns and serve as an escalation point during outages and investigations.

• Collaborate with other teams to surface the health and hygiene of engineering systems through monthly service reviews, and stay engaged in security and services infrastructure initiatives, including geo expansion of team-owned services.

• Administer internal tools: manage permission structures, deploy technology upgrades to existing systems, and help implement new technology as it becomes available. Continually strengthen tool administration and documentation and process improvements from idea to completion.

Execution and stakeholder partnership

• Define requirements and acceptance criteria with input from key stakeholders, help inform feature priorities, and partner with solution engineers to validate that designs meet or exceed business needs.

• Drive engineering initiatives across teams: break loosely defined work into well-scoped tasks, build timelines and level-of-effort estimates, manage milestones, identify and mitigate execution risks, course-correcting to hold schedules.

• Bring clarity to roadmaps, status, and risks through regular reporting, engineering newsletters, and other forums, and automate program management with Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Power BI.

• Coordinate release plans, communications, testing, and change management with business and engineering teams for larger features. After release, compare results against meaningful baselines to verify that solutions capture the benefits identified during planning.

• 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.

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.