Software Engineer at Microsoft Corporation
Redmond, WA
$102,100–$202,200from the description
Jul 10, 2026
Redmond, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role involves building and maintaining an agentic support platform — designing orchestration workflows, grounding pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and observability tooling for AI agents that handle real-world customer support cases. The work spans the full lifecycle from prototype to production, including live-site reliability, compliance, and contributing to an SDK that lets other developers build support agents. It suits engineers with hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered or agent-based systems.
Mid level · 2+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 14,500 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 10,900–18,800
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The job title is presented as 'Software Engineer' with no level modifier in the body text, but the compensation band and internal grading label it 'Software Engineering IC3', which maps to a mid-level individual contributor at Microsoft — consistent with the 2+ year minimum experience gate.
The primary work location is not explicitly stated; Microsoft's CEAI/SXG org is headquartered in Redmond, WA (Seattle metro). The posting notes a separate pay range for San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, suggesting those are also possible locations.
The degree requirement is effectively None: the JD accepts 'equivalent experience' in lieu of a Bachelor's degree.
The Microsoft Cloud Background Check is a standard employment screening, not a US government security clearance — the clearance requirement is None.
All preferred qualifications (LLMs, RAG, Semantic Kernel/LangChain, Azure AI Foundry/Copilot Studio, GitHub Copilot, prompt engineering, evals, observability) appear under the 'Preferred Qualifications' heading and are not hard gates.
The agentic workflow frameworks (Azure AI Foundry, Microsoft Copilot Studio) are listed in the Responsibilities section as examples ('or equivalent'), not in the required qualifications block, so they are treated as preferred.
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