Overview

Would you be excited to drive major changes to a scale service that is critical to the company? Substrate is the data and intelligence platform that enables internal partner teams at Microsoft to build, deploy, and maintain compliant productivity apps and services with reduced effort and faster time to market. We work closely with partners across M365 to enable critical suite-wide scenarios.

The Substrate Core Substrate team powers the infrastructure that underpins Microsoft 365’s most critical services and Copilot. We are a high-impact, forward-looking team focused on building intelligent, scalable, and cost-efficient platforms that enable Microsoft to deliver world-class productivity experiences to billions of users. Our mission is to drive operational excellence and innovation across the M365 fleet by leveraging AI, automation, and deep platform integration.

We are looking for a passionate and growth-oriented Software Engineer 2 to join our team in building a platform that drives financial accountability and operational efficiency across Microsoft’s shared infrastructure. This role offers an opportunity to work on impactful systems that enable M365 Copilot. This system aims to help us deliver the platform that makes Copilot innovation fast, reliable, and regression-free.

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

Create and implement code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable.
Work with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.
Contribute to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area with little oversight.
Contribute to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provide estimation.
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.

Qualifications

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' experience building backend systems, including API design and implementation.
Familiarity with cloud platforms.Experience working with LLMs and prompt engineering.
Understanding distributed systems, data pipelines, or telemetry platforms is a plus.Exposure to data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Grafana) is a bonus.
Solid communication skills and a collaborative mindset.

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 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 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.

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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.