Software Engineer II - Power Point

Overview

The PowerPoint team is embarking on an exciting new chapter - evolving a product with nearly 40 years of history into the future of AI-powered visual creation and storytelling. As part of Microsoft's mission to empower every person and organization to achieve more, we are reimagining how millions of users craft presentations using intelligent, intent-driven creation experiences. Our charter spans both the trusted PowerPoint ecosystem and next-generation features built for Copilot and in-app agents.

With teams in Redmond, WA and Mountain View, CA, we own a rapidly expanding portfolio that includes desktop clients and large-scale cloud services. This breadth offers unique engineering challenges across scale, performance, efficiency, and reliability. As a Software Engineer II, we are pioneering new visual editing capabilities powered by advanced ML systems & Agents - features that generate, transform, and adapt modern presentation artifacts to empower user creativity and productivity.

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.

Responsibilities

• From fast evolving new features to long-term architecture investments, you will be responsible for shipping robust, performant, reliable and delightful experiences to millions of customers.
• Team members collaborate on every detail of design, implementation, validation and monitoring of feature usage and health across PowerPoint desktop clients and backend services.
• You will get a chance to enrich the core of PowerPoint, which is powered by our native C++ and TypeScript codebases, making product changes that allow us to stay in lockstep with the changing needs of our customers.
• You will get a chance to make PowerPoint Live better and more resilient.
• You will have the opportunity to advance engineering excellence by driving design discussions, contributing to code reviews, and participating in knowledge sharing sessions.
• Embody our Culture and Values.

Qualifications

Required Qualificaitons:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ 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:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 3+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 5+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.

• 2+ years experience in application platform and architecture.
• Proficiency in object-oriented design, debugging, analytics and problem solving.
• Experience working with rich telemetry, making data driven decisions, rapid experimentation.
• Experience building software with scale, performance, efficiency, and reliability.
• Experience working closely together on every detail of design and implementation of the product. From fast evolving new features to long-range infrastructure and architecture investments.
• Ability to work cross group and across disciplines.
• Academic or Industry experience with building, finetuning or building systems with models (any category).
• Leadership skills to influence others, with the ability to understand team dynamics, retain, attract, and develop team members.
• Grounded in growth mindset, and advocate for inclusion.
• Customer obsessed and passionate about product impact.

#PPT #Engineering #powerpoint

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $131,400 - $215,400 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
;br>
This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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.