Join the Notebooks team to build AI‑forward experiences that help people turn diverse, unstructured information into clarity, insight, and action. Our team builds Copilot Notebooks, an AI‑native space for gathering information, making sense of it, and taking action across Microsoft 365, alongside OneNote, a trusted productivity app used by millions worldwide.

Are you excited by platforms that enable highly distributed, collaborative experiences at scale? Do you care deeply about best‑in‑class UX, next‑generation collaboration, and strong fundamentals that drive real user engagement? As a Senior Software Engineer on the Notebooks team, you’ll play a critical role in delivering scalable, reliable, and low‑latency experiences. You will drive technical direction for key areas of the platform, helping design and build Copilot Notebooks, a core AI‑first platform that powers long‑running, grounded Copilot experiences across Microsoft 365. You will collaborate closely across disciplines, especially with Applied Scientists and partner teams, while solving tough technical challenges and delivering meaningful customer impact.

Our organization values a collaborative and results‑driven team culture. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be expected to help foster that culture by mentoring other engineers, solving problems collaboratively, working closely with partner teams, and valuing the many ways people contribute to shared goals. In this role, you’ll influence architecture and technical decisions within your area while partnering closely with peers to align on broader platform direction.

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.

• Guides engineers within and across teams to produce extensible, maintainable, well-tested, secure, and performant code that adheres to design specifications.
• Partners with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for one or more complex scenarios.
• Provides technical leadership in identifying dependencies and developing design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• Leads by example and mentors others to produce high-quality code, promoting engineering excellence and long-term maintainability.
• Holds accountability as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), mentoring engineers within and across related teams, and participating in on-call rotations to monitor system, product, or service health, including degradation, downtime, or interruptions.
• Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to emerging trends, technologies, and patterns to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance, while driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale; shares learnings with other engineers.
• Embody our Culture and Values.

• Bachelor's 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.

Other Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

• Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Preferred Qualifications:

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.