Overview
Microsoft Digital builds and manages the critical products and services that Microsoft runs on. We pursue big ideas that power transformational advances at Microsoft and for our customers, while helping Microsoft teams work faster and more securely every day. Microsoft Digital employees bring technical and business experience, customer insights, and a point of view shaped by first-hand, large-scale experience with Microsoft and industry solutions.
As a Software Engineer II in the Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs Engineering team, you will design, build, and scale AI-powered solutions that automate legal workflows and enable agentic experiences across enterprise systems. You will leverage technologies such as Azure AI, Copilot, and modern application frameworks to deliver intelligent, compliant, and high-impact platforms in partnership with product, legal, and business stakeholders.
We are engineers, technology leaders, digital transformation change agents, and customer advocates. We have exciting opportunities for you to innovate, influence, transform, inspire, and grow within our organization. This opportunity will allow you to accelerate your career growth in AI-first engineering, develop experience in legal and compliance workflows, and gain experience building Copilot and agent-based automation systems using Azure AI and modern application frameworks.
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
- Collaborate with product, legal, and engineering stakeholders to understand user requirements and translate them into scalable AI-driven solutions for legal workflows.
- Design and develop features leveraging Azure AI, Copilot technologies, and agentic frameworks to automate document processing, decision flows, and user interactions.
- Contribute to system design, architecture, and technical specifications, identifying dependencies and ensuring alignment with platform and compliance standards.
- Implement high-quality, maintainable code for services and features, reusing and extending existing components where applicable.
- Break down complex work into manageable tasks, contribute to sprint planning, and provide accurate effort estimations.
- Act as a Designated Responsible Individual for services, monitoring system health, responding to incidents, and ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance.
- Continuously improve engineering practices by staying current with advancements in AI, Copilot, and cloud technologies, and driving improvements in observability, scalability, and operational excellence.
Embody our culture and values.
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.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with cloud platforms (preferably Azure) and modern application development practices.
- Experience with Azure AI, LLM-based applications, or Copilot/agent-based solutions.
- Experience working in distributed systems, microservices, or scalable platform architecture.
- Experience with prompt engineering, orchestration patterns, or AI evaluation frameworks.
Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $102,100.00 - $202,200.00 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 $133,800.00 - $219,200.00 per year.
Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay
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.**