Software Engineer II

Are you passionate about creating innovative products and delivering machine learning solutions that impact tens of millions of users every month? Do you excel in fast-paced, high-visibility environments and want to be part of a diverse team at the forefront of technology? If so, the Software Engineer II role with the Microsoft Turing team might be the perfect fit for you.

The Microsoft Turing team is a forward-thinking engineering and research group dedicated to developing state-of-the-art deep learning models and transforming them into impactful, end-to-end user experiences. As part of this team, you'll join a dynamic and high-impact group responsible for building cutting-edge frontend stacks for Microsoft 365 Copilot—bringing advanced machine learning capabilities to life in real-world scenarios. Beyond Microsoft 365 Copilot, the team drives innovation across the Microsoft ecosystem by enhancing core user experiences through high-value, cross-product initiatives.

As a Software Engineer II on the Turing team, you’ll directly influence the quality of products used by millions daily. You'll work with a wide range of cutting-edge technologies, including Microsoft 365's core UX and scalable business frameworks, A/B testing platforms, and more. You'll collaborate with experts in distributed systems, data mining, and machine learning to solve complex, impactful problems.

At Microsoft, you’ll have access to world-class resources and a global network of talented colleagues. You’ll also have the autonomy and support to take ownership of key features and see them through from idea to launch. Our team operates with agility—rapidly moving from ideation to experimentation, development, and continuous deployment throughout the year.

 

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

• Driving projects from design through implementation, experimentation and finally shipping to our users.
• Understand scenarios, challenges, and issues in a feature area. Propose design, solutions, mitigations, and be responsible for metric-driven result.
• Work independently to implement, flight and ship features to different canvases and have impact on key metrics.
• Innovate feature ideas, analyze opportunities through data mining of Bing logs and user study.
• Understand all the metrics, able to get insights of what happened from real traffic scorecard, and come up with improvement plan.
• Build dashboard and online tests to monitor mainstreamed features’ coverage, performance and availability.
• Collaboration with internal and external partner teams globally.
• Embody our culture and values 

 

Qualifications

Required/Minimum 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.
• At least 2 years of industry experiences with one or more of the following: large scale of Web development, App development, Distributed Systems and/or Information Retrieval.
  

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:

• 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 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 equivalent experience.
• Good communication skills in English are preferred.
• Great design, problem solving, and data analysis skills, with demonstrated passion for quality, performance, and engineering excellence, and mivated and able to work independently as well in a collaborative team setting to research innovative solutions to challenging technical/business problems.
  

 

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $83,600 - CAD $159,600 per year.

Find additional pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/canada-pay-information.html

 

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until  May 8, 2025. 

 

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

 

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