Backend Software Engineer - Azure App Service

Are you passionate about shaping the future of cloud development? Join the Azure App Service team—part of Developer Division (DevDiv)—where we’re reimagining how developers build and scale applications in a mobile-first, cloud-first world. You’ll be part of a team that delivers platform innovations powering web, mobile, and serverless workloads across Microsoft’s public and private cloud offerings. 
 
As a Backend Software Engineer -Azure App Service, you’ll design and build scalable, multi-tenant cloud services that support a wide range of runtimes including .NET, Node.js, Python, and PHP. You’ll work on high-density hosting platforms, container-based and serverless architectures, and developer productivity features like CI/CD, staging environments, and automatic patching. 

You’ll also leverage AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Azure OpenAI, and internal agents to accelerate development, improve code quality, and enhance incident resolution.  

This opportunity will allow you to: 
Accelerate your career growth by solving complex engineering challenges in distributed systems. 
Deepen your understanding of platform-as-a-service (PaaS), serverless computing, and AI-assisted development. 
Hone your skills in cloud-native development, DevOps automation, and performance optimization. 

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.

In alignment with our Microsoft values, we are committed to cultivating an inclusive work environment for all employees to positively impact our culture every day.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 2+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
  • OR equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of professional development experience in designing, developing and shipping quality 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

• C# knowledge
• Experience working on and supporting a live service.
• Professional development experience in designing, developing and shipping high quality software
• Experience and passion for distributed cloud services and the developer customer
• Debugging and Troubleshooting experiences
• Experience applying good engineering practices
• SQL database programming
• Web application frameworks: ASP.NET, Node.js (Javascript), Angular2, TypeScript
• Performance tuning
• Working with TLS certificates

Software Engineering IC3 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $100,600 - $199,000 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 $131,400 - $215,400 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 posts positions for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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We are looking for developer to join our team. Prior platform and services experience is a plus or show us your passion for learning and growing this essential new skill. Our team has a great track record of delivering constant improvements on a frequent release schedule. This job will give you many opportunities to do what you like the most---to write a lot of code and solve hard problems---and to continuously challenge yourself. Being a member of an agile team, you will be expected to adapt to new areas and new challenges quickly. 

• Works with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a feature.
• Supports identification of dependencies, and the development of design documents for a product feature with oversight.
• With guidance, learns to create and implement code for a product, service, or feature reusing code as applicable.
• Assists and learns about breaking down work items into tasks and provides estimation.
• Acts as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI) in monitoring system/product feature/service for degradation, downtime, or interruptions for simple problems, and recommends actions to restore system/product/service by following the playbook.
• Reviews current developments and proactively seeks new knowledge that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.