The Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) for Microsoft is chartered with understanding, shaping, and accelerating technologies and their impact on Microsoft, industry, and society in order to empower every person and every organization to achieve more. As a Senior Software Engineer in OCTO, you will operate at the intersection of technical exploration and strategic impact. You’ll build prototypes and reference implementations that push boundaries—turning ambiguous ideas into real systems. Your work will directly inform the CTO’s technology strategy and influence company-wide investments.
Requirements
- coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C-Sharp, Java, JavaScript, or Python
- Demonstrated experience in building AI services or products for customers (e.g. responsible AI, safety and security commitments that solve high value problems).
- Foundation in AI technical skills, such as understanding ML/RL, AI models, building AI services or products, as well as AI infrastructure, compute, hardware, and optimization.
- Expertise in cloud services and AI first apps.
- Ability to handle high ambiguity, drive clarity, and identify/prioritize issues and opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Conduct code reviews to uphold team standards, improve quality, ensure test coverage, and coach engineers in best practices.
- Lead by example in writing secure, performant, maintainable code, leveraging AI-assisted tools, metrics, and debugging practices to drive reliability and prevent recurrence of issues.
- Design and refine system architecture and test strategies, ensuring performance, scalability, resiliency, compliance, and security across product components.
- engineering excellence through automation, zero-touch deployments, secure coding, and adherence to privacy, accessibility, and compliance requirements.
- Partner with stakeholders to plan, execute, and monitor releases, incorporating experimentation, rollback planning, and efficient deployment practices.
- Collaborate with product managers, technical leads, and customers to translate requirements into robust solutions, integrating continuous feedback and advocating for user privacy and security.
Other
- 3 days / week in-office
- Travel 0-25%
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role.
- Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud Background Check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
- Believes doing the right thing is more important than proving we are right.
- Shows a high level of emotional intelligence (EQ) and humility by working collaboratively and helping others be successful.
