New 
Software Engineer II - Excel Agent
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Washington, Redmond | |
 Oct 22, 2025 | |
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OverviewAs a Software Engineer II - Excel Agent on the Excel Agent team, you'll play a pivotal role in changing the way people work in Excel. You'll design, build, and ship end-to-end features that combine Excel's core strengths with cutting-edge agentic AI. This role offers the chance to accelerate your growth in product engineering, work across client and service layers, and develop deep instincts for delivering innovative, reliable AI solutions at scale.We are a welcoming and supportive team that values inclusive decision-making, embraces feedback, and celebrates shared success. We are seeking engineers who thrive in dynamic environments, learn quickly, and are motivated to deliver meaningful results. If you bring curiosity, a collaborative spirit, and a passion for solving complex problems, you'll find an opportunity here to make a lasting impact-both on our products and within our team. 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.
ResponsibilitiesDesign, implement, and optimize AI-powered features and agentic workflows by leveraging evaluation, telemetry, and guardrails to ensure reliable, responsible behavior at scale; iterate quickly based on data and customer feedback.Leverage and proactively adopt AI-assisted development tools to accelerate engineering and improve code quality.Work closely with product, design, and applied science partners to deliver innovative solutions that integrate state-of-the-art AI technologies that meet user needs.Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) on-call to monitor feature health; drive mitigations for regressions and incidents; and follow through with post-incident improvements.Break down larger work into well-scoped tasks, and deliver tested, maintainable code across client and service components.Reuse shared components and patterns; contribute improvements to code quality, reliability, observability, and engineering standards for agentic experiences in Excel. | |