Senior Software Engineer

LLMs are transforming every industry from energy to agriculture, from healthcare to personalized banking. At Bing Growth team, we focus on building and distributing AI first search experiences that help users achieve more with each search. Through data driven and agile experimentation we disrupt what search engines are capable of and deliver delightful user experiences. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Growth team, you will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to create innovative and user-centric products that bring the best of AI to search experiences. You will be responsible for driving end-to-end (ideation, functional spec, coding, tests, and capacity management) prototypes and ideas that push the envelope, running and analyzing the A/B experiments, and iterating based on metric movements and user feedback. This opportunity will allow you to impact hundreds of millions of users, improve your experimentation and metrics skills, and hone your ideation and pitching skills. 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.

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-milecommute of a non-U.S., country-specific location are expected to work fromthe office at least four days per week. This expectation is subject to local law and may vary by jurisdiction.

• Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and market trends (example: new technical solutions and AI capabilities) and develops ideas, plans and functional specs on how we can integrate these in our search experiences.
• Maintains and optimizes our live site monitoring
• Improving the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Required/minimum qualifications

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $158,400 - $258,000 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.