New 
Software Engineer II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Jul 18, 2025 | |
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OverviewMicrosoft's Path team helps customers along their journey from the initial idea to the final realization of their goals - from Idea to Plan to Done. We are responsible for collaborative work management products including Microsoft Project, Planner, To Do, and Visio. With Project and Planner, we help customers collaborate effectively to navigate complexity, determine critical paths, and orchestrate their plans to achieve more. With To Do and Tasks, we help customers capture, prioritize, and complete their aspirations and goals along their path to success. And with Visio, we help customers model and conceptualize information pathways that flow through process diagrams, organizational charts, and more to visualize what is and what can be. Collectively, we're responsible for an incredible portfolio of products and services that help guide people and organizations along their journey to achieve more. As a Software Engineer II on the Path team, you won't just be building software-you'll be transforming how people work, plan, and collaborate every single day. You'll be modernizing work management with artificial intelligence (AI), pioneering next-generation Large Language Models (LLMs) and advanced Agentic frameworks that supercharge productivity. From leveraging cutting-edge AI agents to automate repetitive tasks, to creating intelligent assistants that streamline project workflows and proactively complete tasks, you'll be at the heart of an exciting global effort-redefining how people everywhere get things done. 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.
ResponsibilitiesYou will contribute in partnership with appropriate stakeholder to determine user requirements for a feature and consider a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes. You will learn and contribute to processes for the architecture of a product/solution feature and learns to create proposals by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans under the technical leadership of others as well as help produce code to test hypotheses for technical solutions and assists with technical validation efforts. With guidance, you will learn to create and implement code that is extensible and maintainable and apply diagnosability, reliability and maintainabilit, and understand when the code is ready to be shared and delivered for a product, service, or feature reusing code as applicable. You will learn to review work items to gain knowledge of product features in partnership with appropriate stakeholders and assist and learn about breaking down work items into tasks and provides estimation as well as escalate any issues that would cause a delay. You will learn about and contribute to operations of live service as issues arise on a rotational, on-call basis and identify solutions and mitigations to simple issues impacting performance or functionality of Live Site services and escalates as necessary. You will help develop and contribute to automation within production and deployment of a product feature and run code in simulated or other non-production environments to confirm functionality and error-free runtime for products with oversight. You will embody our culture and values. | |