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Senior Software Engineer


Company : Microsoft Canada


Location : Vancouver, British Columbia


Created : 2026-03-02


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Overview We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team to drive all aspects of AI feature fundamentals for one of the biggest modern collaboration platforms in the world - Microsoft Teams. We help feature teams ship quality AI experiences out of the gate, track key performance and reliability metrics for critical high-volume scenarios, aid feature teams in improving the debuggability of AI scenarios, help create offline and online evals for all AI features by incorporating into release pipelines and drive culture of performance by promoting best practices and consulting. As a team, we obsess about learning, diving deep into areas of opportunities, experimenting and use an evidence-based approach to turning opportunities into positive impact on performance of the product through collaboration. Microsofts 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 Build and evolve the Real-Time Intelligence evaluations platform: implement offline and online eval pipelines, including golden datasets, human review workflows, and LLM-as-judge / auto-raters for agents, anomaly detectors, and decisioning systems. Instrument agentic solutions for observability by wiring up telemetry, tracing, structured logging, and dashboards so quality, safety, latency, and cost are easy to monitor and debug. Integrate evals into the development lifecycle by connecting pipelines to CI/CD, canary and A/B experiments, and phased rollouts, making it simple for partner teams to run and interpret evaluations. Collaborate and mentor across product, research, and engineering teams, sharing best practices on eval design, LLM-as-judge usage, and Responsible AI, and providing code reviews and guidance that raise the bar for the AI features. Qualifications Required Qualifications: Bachelors 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 equivalent experience. Preferred Qualifications : Masters Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience. Understanding of building engineering tools on the server side for scale. 2+ years of experience on engineering tooling or eval developmentPrior experience in working on services at scale. Prior experience in driving fundamentals for AI features within web apps. Prior experience in working closely with AI feature teams and improving fundamentals like performance and reliability is a major plus. Experience solving challenging problems and cross team/organization collaboration skills. Proficiency with React is a plus. Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across Canada is CAD $114,400 - CAD $203,900 per year. Find additional pay information here: Software Engineering IC4 - Lchelle salariale de base typique pour ce rle dans lensemble du Canada est de 114,400 $ CAD 203,900 $ CAD par anne. 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