The Azure Core Compute team is building the next-generation cloud platform that will redefine how businesses scale, collaborate, and thrive. We are looking for software engineers who are passionate about advancing cloud technology and delivering innovative solutions at global scale.

Azure Core Compute is one of Microsoft’s fastest-growing businesses, focused on making Azure the world’s computer powering all customer workloads. The host team is responsible for customer-facing general-purpose compute offerings and management across virtual machines, containers, and bare metal servers, while also exploring forward-looking technologies such as evolving the host operating system, utilizing hardware offloads, and leveraging disaggregation. As a mission-critical cloud platform, our goal is to ensure industry-leading availability, reliability, performance consistency, compliance, and security.

As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will lead features that run on millions of nodes and collaborate across organizations to meet demands for scale, elasticity, latency, and reliability. This role offers opportunities to learn new technologies, design the next generation of services adapting to hardware evolution, and provide thought leadership in driving innovation. You will have the freedom to ideate and create, with tremendous opportunities to grow into a senior technical or organizational leader.

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.

• Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario. Leverage a variety of feedback channels to incorporate insights into future designs or solution fixes.
• Lead discussions for the architecture of products/solutions and create proposals for architecture by testing design hypotheses and helping to refine code plans.
• Create, implement, optimize, debug, refactor and reuse code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness and return on investment (ROI).
• Independently create a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring quality of solutions. Identify the need for a broad versus selected approach in testing mechanisms and make informed decisions to implement the most effective tests.Leverage performance and profiling tools to identify hot spots and bottlenecks across hardware and software boundaries
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) and guide other engineers by developing and following the playbook, working on call to monitor service for degradation or downtime, alerting stakeholders about status and initiate actions to restore service.
• Act as a DRI for release management, ensure the release sticks to the schedule by identifying reasons for blockers/delays, improve the signals that are blocking deployments, triage the issues are new vs existing, mitigate and work towards improving the release process.
• Proactively seek new knowledge and adapt 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.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of experience of designing, building and shipping high quality system software.

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

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
  • OR related technical field AND 7+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++
  • OR 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++
  • OR equivalent experience.

• 1+ years in Embedded Systems and Virtualization Expertise

  • Building components of embedded systems, system-on-chip (SoC), or applications that run on them.
  • Native Windows or Linux development experience.
  • Hyper-V, VMware, Docker, or other virtualization technologies.

• 1+ years Programming and Performance Skills

  • Rust programming language.
  • Performance profiling tools.
  • Create componentized and well-architected software.

• 1+ years Hardware and Operational Knowledge

  • Graphics processing units (GPUs) or field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and their programming stacks
  • Improving service operations or engineering fundamentals.

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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.