Senior Software Engineer - Azure Compute

Overview

Azure Compute Manager is the kernel of Microsoft’s compute cloud. We build fault-tolerant distributed systems on commodity datacenter hardware to host cloud applications on virtual servers and bare-metal instances, powering mission-critical, cloud-native, enterprise, and AI workloads. Our systems make Azure resources appear limitless, elastic, and always available.

The Core Control Plane team builds and runs the distributed systems that manage Azure Compute resources at hyperscale, including the services that provision, update, heal, migrate, monitor, and operate virtual machines and containers across Azure regions. The organization is modernizing Compute Manager services by moving from legacy control-plane systems to modern platforms and improving reliability, performance, and scale across Azure Compute Manager, Azure Host OS and Host Agent, Compute Resource Provider, Azure Networking, and related Azure Core components.

We are looking for Software Engineers to help build highly scalable services and world-class product experiences. In this role, you will work across the technology stack—from customer-facing experiences and full-stack web applications to backend APIs and distributed cloud services. You will design services that operate globally, collaborate with teams across Microsoft, and use modern web technologies in a dynamic, agile environment.

You will join a diverse, collaborative team that embraces challenges, values learning, and offers opportunities for mentorship, career growth, and high-impact work.

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

Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.

Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.

Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).

Leverages subject-matter expertise of product features and partners with appropriate stakeholders (e.g., project managers) to drive a workgroup's project plans, release plans, and work items.

Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guides other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor system/product/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions, alerting stakeholders about status and initiates actions to restore system/product/service for simple and complex problems when appropriate.

Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ 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 6+ 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 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience.

4+ years of experience designing, developing, or operating cloud infrastructure or distributed systems.

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Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $119,800 - $234,700 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 $160,200 - $261,000 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:

https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

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.

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