Site Reliability Engineer

Join the Microsoft Capacity Infrastructure Services team in Azure Core to help build and maintain the infrastructure behind one of the world’s largest distributed computing platforms. This team is responsible for capacity buildout—bringing new servers online to support Azure customers with scalable, reliable access to the latest offerings. The work ensures customers experience seamless growth and the illusion of infinite capacity, while enabling Microsoft to expand its cloud business efficiently at hyperscale.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will collaborate with a wide range of partners across Microsoft, including software developers, hardware engineers, datacenter technicians, supply chain managers, and business leaders. Your role will focus on rapidly diagnosing and resolving issues that delay the buildout process. You will also lead continuous improvement efforts through design reviews and problem management to address recurring issues across the Azure software stack.

This position offers a unique opportunity to gain deep, system-wide knowledge of how the Azure cloud is built and maintained. You will engage with experts across services and technologies, automate tactical mitigations, and analyze data to identify and prioritize problem areas. The role supports remote work up to 100 percent of the time and requires flexibility to collaborate virtually with global partners.

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.

Required Qualifications: 

• Associate's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) of experience working on the backend of cloud hyperscalers such as Azure, AWS, GCP, or Oracle

Other Qualifications: 

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:  
  • MicrosoftCloud 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, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in software engineering, network engineering, or systems administration
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 1+ year(s) experience developing, debugging, monitoring, and deploying distributed systems, as well as working across hardware and software interfaces, host and networking environments, and managing large-scale servers and network devices.
  • Skilled in root cause analysis across multiple systems, services, and teams.
  • Familiarity with scalable architectures, fault-tolerant services, and system observability tools.
• 1+ year(s) experience programming in C, C++, C Sharp (C#), and Java.
  • Ability to write efficient, maintainable, and secure code.
  • Experience with debugging and performance tuning across multiple languages.

Site Reliability Engineering IC2 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $84,200 - $165,200 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 $109,000 - $180,400 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until October 15th, 2025.

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• Develop a foundational understanding of distributed systems design, cloud technology layers and components, and the code that defines infrastructure.
• Support engagements with product engineering teams by participating in code and design reviews, regular meetings, on-call rotations, and incident responses.
• Implement configuration and data changes across a predefined range of product components or features using code, tooling, and automation.
• Manage production changes safely and reliably using existing tools and automation to help implement updates across defined components or features.
• Troubleshoot issues affecting availability, reliability, performance, or efficiency of components or features and suggest solutions to prevent recurrence.
• Respond to incidents during on-call rotations by identifying impact levels, resolving root causes, and sharing incident details through post-mortem reports and review meetings.