Software Engineer II

Microsoft Microsoft · Big Tech · Redmond, WA +1 · Software Engineering

Software Engineer II role on the Edge Growth Deep Personalization team at Microsoft, focusing on building AI-driven personalized experiences for hundreds of millions of users. The role involves designing and operating scalable personalization platforms, leveraging AI/ML/LLMs, and exploring emerging technologies like on-device AI and agentic experiences.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design, build, and operate scalable personalization platforms and services that power intelligent experiences across Microsoft Edge and the broader Microsoft AI ecosystem.
  2. Leverage robust experimentation frameworks and measurement solutions to evaluate user impact, optimize engagement, and drive product growth.
  3. Develop end-to-end product features from ideation to production, including client-side, service-side, and experimentation components that reach hundreds of millions of users.
  4. Leverage AI, machine learning, and large language model technologies to create personalized, context-aware experiences that help users discover and accomplish tasks more effectively.
  5. Explore emerging technologies, including on-device AI, client-side models, reinforcement learning, and agentic experiences, to shape the future of personalized browsing.

Skills

Required

  • 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
  • equivalent experience

Nice to have

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • equivalent experience
  • Familiarity with front-end performance optimization, telemetry, experimentation frameworks, and customer usage analytics.
  • High enthusiasm, integrity, ingenuity, results-orientation, and self-motivation in a fast-paced environment.
  • A deep passion and empathy for customers, leading to innovative problem-solving.

What the JD emphasized

  • core strategic product
  • key entry point to Microsoft’s new AI ecosystem
  • hundreds of millions of users daily
  • hypercompetitive AI browser ecosystem
  • reimagine personalization from the ground up
  • integrating software engineering and data science
  • hundreds of millions of users worldwide
  • hundreds of millions of users

Other signals

  • integrating software engineering and data science
  • advances in client-side AI, reinforcement learning, and large language models
  • reimagine personalization from the ground up
  • AI-driven experiences