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Belgrade is a vibrant city full of surprises. With its rich culture, convenient location, low cost of living and exploding IT innovation scene, Belgrade has a lot to offer. And at the heart of Belgrade, you can find Microsoft Serbia. Microsoft Development Center Serbia was established in 2005 and the sales and marketing department in 2003 and we have been creating cutting-edge technologies and contributing to some of Microsoft’s premiere and most innovative products (Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Office), right here in Belgrade.

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Software Engineer 2 - Azure Data SQL MI

2026-02-12

Serbia, Belgrade, Belgrade

3 days / week in-office

Overview <div>We are Azure Databases, a Microsoft team that drives the future of databases in the Microsoft Cloud. Our software development teams, located in Belgrade, are building some of the most advanced and widely used database cloud services in the world. The services we build are based on groundbreaking technology and are global market leaders, with millions of active users, and applications ranging from small shops to large mission critical business workloads. Each service provides the benefits of automated database management: patching, backups, high-availability, security, and many more. We're hiring for Azure SQL and Azure DB for PostgreSQL services and teams within Azure Databases. </div><div>Our Core SQL Engineering team is on a mission to drive a foundational approach to modernizing SQL codebase, by improving the core SQL components, engineering techniques and tooling (automation, observability, code transformation and validation), by betting on well-proven as well as cutting-edge novel approaches, to deliver the industry leading scalable software engineering. We collaborate with many core engineering teams of Azure and SQL, Microsoft Research and other research groups. One of the most significant outcomes from this team will be a cutting edge copilot for understanding and developing code. Our code base is large and diverse, and is challenging for even the advanced publicly available AI models and tools. Hence, we're pushing the industry boundaries with our emerging Code Copilot. </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>We are looking for Software Engineers who are passionate and highly motivated to work on researching, solving deep technical problems, and taking on new challenges. In this role you will collaborate with some of the world's leading experts in this area of technology, and have an excellent opportunity to learn, grow and advance your career. </div> Responsibilities <ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="2" data-aria-posinset="1">Design, produce and deliver software to improve the reliability, scalability, performance, security, and efficiency of a cloud service. </li><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="2" data-aria-posinset="2">Contribute with fixing, enhancing, and supporting our services in production, including periodic on-call duties. </li><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="2" data-aria-posinset="3">Collaborate with colleagues across the world to address all requirements needed to run enterprise-grade services. </li><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="2" data-aria-posinset="4">Participate actively in code reviews, bug/issue triage with the feature teams, and support well informed decisions towards business and engineering goals. </li><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="2" data-aria-posinset="5">Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for operating services and systems. </li></ul> Qualifications <div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Degree in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline OR equivalent experience. </li><li>Experience in system programming. </li><li>Some software development experience. </li><li>Ability to effectively communicate in English. </li><li>Great collaboration and team-player skills. </li></ul></div><div>  </div><div>Preferred Qualifications <ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Demonstrated excellence in coding and technical communication. </li><li>Demonstrated problem solving and debugging skills. </li><li>Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including, but not limited to: Java, C/C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, Rust. </li><li>Experience with large scale services, distributed systems. </li><li>Strong customer focus and data driven approach. </li><li>Adaptability in fast paced environment. </li></ul></div> This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> 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 <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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Senior Applied Scientist - Microsoft Word Copilot

2026-02-16

Serbia, Belgrade, Belgrade

3 days / week in-office

Overview <div>Come join Microsoft Word Copilot to work on state-of-the-art services, AI solutions and platforms and deliver the next generation of intelligent productivity experiences used by hundreds of millions of users daily! We are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist who can help us further grow our products, business, and culture! </div><div>At Microsoft Word Copilot team in Microsoft Development Center Serbia (MDCS), we have been focusing on reimagining and empowering Microsoft Word Office productivity through AI-powered user experiences and services built across core Microsoft Office applications. <a href="https://adoption.microsoft.com/en-us/copilot/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Microsoft Copilot</a> combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with your organizational data, having native integration with Office apps to streamline your productivity: content generation, app navigation, comprehension and more. The team is relentlessly focused on making AI and tech work for people! </div><div>Applied Science team within Office Serbia is focused on end-to-end building and deploying state-of-the-art deep learning models for various AI applications across Microsoft Office suite of products. The team works with product and research teams around the globe to design, build, and evaluate LLM-based features, agentic systems, multimodal models, and deep learning solutions at scale. If you are passionate about applying cutting edge technology to positively impact the lives of millions of people, this is the job for you. </div> Responsibilities <div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Drive intelligent experiences, projects, and open-ended problems through their entire lifecycle from ideation through implementation, experimentation and finally to world-wide availability. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Develop, adapt and deploy Generative AI and deep learning models in real-world product scenarios. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Demonstrate rigor in key scientific procedures in AI based development process, including data, training, prompt engineering and evaluation methodologies. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Define and implement robust evaluation frameworks and metrics, in partnership with product teams, to measure the quality of a wide range of AI features and inform decision-making and the design of AI-powered experiences. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Lead experimentation through offline evaluation and A/B testing to measure user and business impact </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="6" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Collaborate with other research and engineering teams to adopt and advance state-of-the-art technologies. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="7" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Follow strong engineering and documentation practices; participate actively in code reviews, bug/issue triage with the feature teams, and support well informed decisions towards business goals. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="8" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Foster a healthy and inclusive team environment; provide technical leadership and mentorship to other applied scientists. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="9" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Maintain, nurture and build relationships with international teams within Microsoft. Build strong cross-team partnerships and multiply impact across the team. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="10" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="1" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Stay current with research trends and influence product and technical strategy. Qualifications</li></ul></div> Qualifications <div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="2" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">BSc in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or related disciplines or equivalent industry experience. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="2" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Proficiency with Python and experience with one or more other programming languages including, but not limited to Type Script, JavaScript, C/C++.  </li></ul></div></div><div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="2" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Strong software engineering fundamentals, including coding, software design, problem solving, and data analysis skills. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="2" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">2+ years of experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Generative AI. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="2" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">3+ years’ experience designing and shipping ML-powered systems across the product lifecycle. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="6" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="2" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Experience with guiding or mentoring applied scientists or engineers. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="7" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="2" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Ability to thrive in collaborative, fast-moving, and ambiguous environments. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="8" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="2" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Demonstrated growth mindset and passion for AI innovation. </li></ul></div><div>Preferred Qualifications </div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="3" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Deep experience in applied machine learning (e.g., NLP/LLMs, predictive analytics, computer vision, statistics). </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="3" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Experience developing evaluation frameworks for AI/LLM systems, including offline and online evaluations, human-in-the-loop setups, and metric design. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="3" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Experience conducting applied research in industry settings. </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="3" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Master's Degree or Doctorate in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering, Statistics or related field </li></ul></div><div><ul style="list-style-type: disc;" role="list"><li role="listitem" data-aria-level="1" data-aria-posinset="5" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"multilevel"}" data-listid="3" data-font="Symbol" data-leveltext="" aria-setsize="-1">Strong written and verbal English communication skills. </li></ul></div></div> This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> 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 <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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Software Engineer 2 - Azure Data

2026-02-19

Serbia, Belgrade, Belgrade

4 days / week in-office

Overview <div>Microsoft is a company where passionate innovators come to collaborate, envision what can be and take their careers further. This is a world of more possibilities, more innovation, more openness, and the sky is the limit thinking in a cloud-enabled world. Microsoft’s Azure Data engineering team is leading the transformation of analytics in the world of data with products like databases, data integration, big data analytics, messaging & real-time analytics, and business intelligence. The products our portfolio include Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure PostgreSQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Grid, and Power BI. Our mission is to build the data platform for the age of AI, powering a new class of data-first applications and driving a data culture. </div><div>Within Azure Data, the big data analytics team provides a range of products that enable data engineers and data scientists to extract intelligence from all data – structured, semi-structured, and unstructured. We build the Data Engineering, Data Science, and Data Integration pillars of Microsoft Fabric. </div><div>DW SWIFT is a full-stack engineering team at the heart of Fabric SQL Data Warehouse, focused on building world-class infrastructure and engineering systems to accelerate feature development and delivery for the next-generation SaaS Enterprise Data Warehouse. Our mission is to enable rapid, predictable, and high-quality product releases by driving core changes across both the product and its surrounding systems. Our primary customers are internal – engineers, release managers and the leadership team. We tackle complex challenges such as deployment automation, cluster provisioning, branching strategies, and robust validation pipelines—leveraging cutting-edge technologies, including AI, to streamline engineering workflows and shift quality left. </div><div>We do not just value differences or different perspectives. We seek them out and invite them in so we can tap into the collective power of everyone in the company. As a result, our customers are better served. </div> Responsibilities • Build and maintain highly reliable cluster/distributed environments and enable engineers to rapidly deploy bits and verify their changes end to end • Design, develop and maintain highly reliable engineering systems and infrastructure that enable building world class products leveraging new technologies and AI • Work with a large set of engineers across orgs and teams to troubleshoot issues, find root causes and bring them to closure • Support development teams and internal stakeholders by maintaining and running tight and efficient engineering systems and services • Partner with stakeholders (e.g., project manager, technical leads) to define product requirements and create technical designs for future product capabilities • Collaborate with members within and across teams at Microsoft • Produce extensible and maintainable code with a focus on security, reliability, diagnosability, and performance • Lead design discussions with the team and share learnings from investigations, holding ownership for design decisions • Contribute to the roadmap, architecture, design and planning • Participate in on-call rotation for maintaining service health along with other things Qualifications Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or Mathematics or Statistics or Physics OR equivalent experience. • Some experience in design and development of computing systems• Experience working in a fast-paced environment working with several teams to develop production quality software • Proven track record in delivering reliable, scalable and highly performant end-to-end solutions • Excellent communication and demonstrated ability to drive cross-team improvements • Hands-on engineering experience developing and managing scalable cloud services <div>Other & Additional: 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/Additional Qualifications: • Experience working on infrastructure, engineering systems, and deployments supporting development of largescale enterprise-class distributed systems software • Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS or GCP • Experience in building and maintaining reliable environments and infrastructure services <div>#azdat #azuredata #azdat #azuredata #azdat #azuredata #analytics #powerbi </div></div> This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. <hr> 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 <a href="https://careers.microsoft.com/v2/global/en/accessibility.html">requesting accommodations.</a>

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