New 
Senior Software Engineer - Notebooks
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 23, 2025 | |
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OverviewAre you passionate about shaping the future applicationsof AI and empowering millions of users to unlock their full potential?OneNoteteam is at the forefront of an exciting transformation with Copilot Notebooks:intelligent, dynamic notebooks infused with powerful AI that act as a true "second brain." Imagine effortlessly capturing ideas, intuitively understanding complex information, and seamlessly taking informed action. This is the heart of our mission.We plan to build transformational experiences in Copilot notebook and are looking to hire a Senior Software Engineer in the OneNote Cloud Experiences team. The problems we solve include running services that power OneNote at scale, building a multitude of grounding capabilities, creation of richer artifacts, multi-modal capture support, and building agent support on top of Copilot notebooks. The problems will also encompass deep architectural improvements to optimize performance and increase reliability. We plan to build these experiences at scale across all Web and mobile platforms and will continue to use the best-in-class infrastructure that boosts developer productivity and engineering velocity.We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is at least as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity as well as grit, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results.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.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborate with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a set of features.Drive the identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product area.Lead by example and mentor others to produce extensible and maintainable code used across products.Leverage subject-matter proficient of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.Act (at times i.e. in rotation) as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI)and guide other engineers working on-call to monitor system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions and gains approval to restore system/product/service for simple problems.Remain current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.Leverage the work of others, including the work of peers, of internal Microsoft solutions, and of open-source and industry solutions, to avoid reinventing the wheel. | |