Software Engineer 2

Overview The Windows Ecosystem and Customer Engagements (WECE) team works across the Windows ecosystem to enable partners and customers to successfully build, deploy, and scale solutions on Microsoft platforms. WECE partners closely with product teams, engineering teams, and the broader ecosystem to remove friction, accelerate readiness, and drive meaningful customer and partner outcomes. Within WECE, we are building scalable, AI-powered enablement experiences that help Microsoft's hardware partners self-serve, onboard, troubleshoot, and succeed across Microsoft technologies. As a Software Engineer in WECE, you will help build and operate an AI-powered enablement platform that gives Microsoft's hardware partners self-service access to onboarding guidance, technical knowledge, and troubleshooting support across Microsoft technologies. You will collaborate with engineering, product, design, and partner-facing teams to deliver secure, reliable, observable, and accessible capabilities end to end across React web experiences, Python and .NET services, data ingestion and retrieval pipelines, AI agents and tools, and Azure infrastructure, enabling grounded answers with references from trusted public and internal content. This opportunity will allow you to deepen your full-stack and cloud engineering expertise, develop practical experience with generative AI and retrieval-augmented generation, and grow your ability to own services from design through production operations. 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 Work with product managers, designers, engineers, and partner-facing stakeholders to define user requirements and success criteria for a set of features.Contribute to architecture, API contracts, dependency identification, and design documents for product areas with limited oversight.Design and implement secure, accessible, and maintainable capabilities across React and TypeScript frontends, Python or .NET backend services, data ingestion workflows, and Azure infrastructure.Break down larger initiatives into well-scoped work items, provide estimates, identify risks, and deliver incremental value through code reviews and automated testing.Build and evolve AI-powered experiences using responsible engineering practices, including retrieval-augmented generation, grounding, evaluation, and protection of customer and partner data.Serve as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) in an on-call rotation, using telemetry to identify service degradation or interruptions and coordinating approved restoration for routine incidents.Invest in engineering skills and operational practices that improve the availability, reliability, security, efficiency, observability, and performance of products at scale. 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.Experience designing, implementing, testing, or operating web applications, APIs, cloud services, or distributed systems.Familiarity with source control, code review, automated testing, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) concepts.Ability to collaborate across disciplines and communicate technical decisions, tradeoffs, risks, and progress effectively. Additional Or 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 these or similar languages; OR equivalent experience.Experience delivering end-to-end web applications using technologies such as React, TypeScript, Python, FastAPI, C#, .NET, or ASP.NET Core.Experience designing and building LLM-powered applications, including LLM API integration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agent and tool design, evaluation, and Model Context Protocol (MCP), using technologies such as Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI Service, or Azure AI Search.Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines, ARM or Bicep infrastructure-as-code, automated unit and end-to-end testing, and production observability using logs, metrics, traces, or OpenTelemetry. #W+DJOBS This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. 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