# Software Engineer II **Company**: Microsoft **Location**: Redmond **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: mid **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $102,100 - $202,200 per year **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Ticker**: MSFT **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2283 **Apply**: https://microsoft.ai/job/software-engineer-ii-44/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_844316c3-5f1 ## Description The Microsoft AI – Bing Places Data team is seeking a passionate engineer to accelerate the adoption of Location, Places and POI data for Copilot and Bing Search experiences. Our team is uniquely positioned to provide rich entity data to experiences across the Bing Search and Copilot space, driving the growth of Generative AI and Agents building the best experiences for our customers. We seek a MAI – Search Places – Software Engineer II with a solid passion for technology, intellectual curiosity, and a willingness to learn and share. This opportunity allows you to make a broad positive impact using a range of software tools and services, including large-scale interactive data analytics, scalable map-reduce compute, machine learning and AI, LLM models, service and data engineering, security, compliance, and service management. We develop processes to extract and create rich content from hundreds of millions of location entities globally utilizing a variety of signals and algorithms from web scraping to trusted partners. 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: - Understand User Requirements – Collaborate with product managers and technical leads to clarify requirements and incorporate continuous feedback loops. - Design and Architecture – Contribute to solution architecture, create design documents, and ensure alignment with security, privacy, and compliance requirements. - Coding and Code Quality – Implement maintainable, extensible code and participate in reviews that uphold Microsoft engineering standards. - Testing and Automation – Develop and refine test plans, integrate automation, and ensure robust test coverage for backend services. - Engineering Excellence – Integrate telemetry, improve tools and processes, and maintain compliance with reliability, accessibility, and regulatory expectations. - Design secure, reliable, and sustainable software that is resilient to change. - Develop, validate, release, and derive insights from software that enhances our customers experiences. - Champion customer-first design leads to increased loyalty to Copilot, Search and our Partners across various organizations. - Demonstrate partnership, accountability, clarity in communication and technical depth while delivering results. - Apply critical analyses to data to validate hypotheses and inform decisions. - Foster an inclusive environment that welcomes diverse perspectives, and in turn leverages that diversity to create more inclusive products for our customers. - Work with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features. - Contribute to the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area. - Creates and implements code for a product, service, or feature, reusing code as applicable. - Contributes to efforts to break down larger work items into smaller work items and provides estimation. - Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale. - Model a growth mindset by learning from others and sharing your learnings with others. - Embody our Culture and Values ## Skills ### Required - C - C++ - C# - Java - Python - AI/ML frameworks - big data systems - cloud services - software system design and architecture ### Nice to have - PyTorch - TensorFlow - Data Science techniques - Spark/PySpark - Stream Processing Systems --- Source: [Apply at microsoft.ai](https://microsoft.ai/job/software-engineer-ii-44/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)