Senior Software Engineer

Are you a software engineer who enjoys working on large-scale projects within Azure Core, the foundation of Microsoft’s artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer? Do you thrive on solving complex challenges in distributed computing systems and want to be a force multiplier—empowering engineering teams to do their best work? If so, the Azure Compute OneDeploy team offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to impactful infrastructure innovation.

The Azure Compute OneDeploy team enables billions of changes to be deployed across millions of hosts in the Microsoft Azure fleet. This is accomplished through a combination of advanced software and hardware technologies. The team’s work accelerates innovation across the cloud and delivers scalable infrastructure that benefits the entire company. We are seeking an experienced software engineer to join this team, where you’ll collaborate with a talented group committed to long-term investment in both technology and people. Our development approach emphasizes thoughtful platform design, incremental delivery, high quality, and responsiveness to early customer feedback.

This role offers the chance to work on systems that directly influence the agility and reliability of Azure deployments. You’ll contribute to building smart infrastructure that supports a wide range of services and enables engineers across Microsoft to innovate faster and more safely. If you are passionate about solving technical challenges and making a meaningful impact, we encourage you to explore this opportunity.

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.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C or C++
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of experience in data structures and algorithms with experience in testing, debugging, and analytical skills.
• 2+ years of experience with multi-threaded programming.

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 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C or 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 or C++
  • OR equivalent experience.
• Experience in designing and building large scale distributed systems focusing on performance, reliability, resiliency, and scale-out.
• Experience in designing and maintaining high throughput, low latency object storage solutions.

Software Engineering IC4 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $117,200 - $229,200 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 $153,600 - $250,200 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 21, 2025.

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• Collaborate with stakeholders (e.g., product managers, designers, back-end developers) to clarify requirements, validate user scenarios, and ensure alignment with business and user goals. Translates product requirements and user needs into easy to use deployment instructions.
• Develops high-quality, scalable, and maintainable backend-end solutions using C++ and C#. Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).
• Drives identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.
• 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), 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.
• Mentor team members for career growth and technical developments.