Senior Software Engineer

Azure Core is one of Microsoft’s fastest-growing businesses, providing millions of servers for customers to run workloads in the cloud. It is a globally available foundational service that hosts large-scale applications such as Azure, Bing, Microsoft 365, and Azure Storage. Customers rely on Azure Core to power scenarios ranging from multiplayer gaming sessions to solving complex computational problems in seconds. Workloads include both cloud-native services and traditional applications migrated from physical datacenters.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Azure Pilotfish team, you will build services that manage the fleet of servers in Pilotfish. This includes developing solutions for server provisioning, monitoring and diagnosing software and hardware issues, and supporting new hardware types requested by customers. This role offers opportunities to work on large-scale distributed systems and accelerate your career growth in one of Microsoft’s most strategic businesses.

You will collaborate with teams across Azure to design and deliver reliable, efficient, and scalable services that improve operational performance and enable innovation for customers worldwide.

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 

• 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. 
• 1+ years experience working on Azure infrastructure.
  
• 1+ years experience driving cross-team collaboration across engineering and partner teams.

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, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, 
  • OR Python 
  • 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++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python 
  • OR equivalent experience. 
• 4+ years of experience in distributed systems.
  
• 3+ years of experience running and working on services at scale.
  
• 2+ years of experience working on cloud infrastructure.
  
• 2+ years of experience in the development of design documents for a product, application, service, OR platform.

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 $158,400 - $258,000 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

Microsoft will accept applications for the role until November 14th, 2025 .

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• 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.
• Remains current in skills by investing time and effort into staying abreast of current developments that will improve the availability, reliability, efficiency, observability, and performance of products while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale.