Software Engineer II

Overview

We are looking for an experienced software engineer to work on our experimentation platform powering Bing Search quality evaluations. Our team is responsible for the highly scalable experimentation and scraping platforms that help data scientists evaluate their work and confirm they are ready to ship. We utilize innovative Azure technologies to build our platform and for the entire CD/CI workflow. Our platforms serve Bing Search Engine Core Search Relevance and other teams in the Bing organization, helping them evaluate tens of experiments every day, using thousands of queries and tens of thousands of documents for each experiment and producing high quality and reproducible metric results for each experiment. You are expected to have a solid understanding of the software development cycle, from design to testing. You should be comfortable owning a feature and making decisions independently.

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Starting January 26, 2026, Microsoft AI (MAI) employees who live within a 50- mile commute of a designated Microsoft office in the U.S. or 25-mile commute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work from the office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

Responsibilities

• Solid understanding of technical support issues required. Must have sufficient technical depth to communicate with development and other internal organizations at a peer level.
• Working with data science team members, understanding their workflows, and translating them into specific requirements as new features for the platform.
• Design/implement and assess these features before they are ready to deploy.
• Collaborate with partner teams to integrate different systems and/or improve existing interfaces with such a system to improve overall End2End availability and reliability of the platform.
• Being a strong collaborator and helping with other engineering tasks such as DRI, code reviews, deployments and debugging as needed.

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.
• Hands-on software development expertise including object-oriented design skills, .NET, Azure services.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Excellent communication skills, including ability to write concise and accurate technical documentation, communicate technical ideas.

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 3+ 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 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

Key skills/competency

• Azure Technologies
• .NET Development
• Object-Oriented Design
• Experimentation Platforms
• Scalable Systems
• CI/CD Workflow
• Data Science Collaboration
• Technical Documentation
• Code Reviews
• Debugging