Senior Software Engineer

Are you passionate about building secure, high-performance cloud infrastructure that powers millions of workloads worldwide? As a Software Engineer on the Azure Core Compute Node Services team, you will design and deliver features that run at hyperscale, advancing reliability, elasticity, and security for one of the world’s largest cloud platforms.

You will work on cutting-edge systems that evolve the host operating system, leverage hardware offloads, and enable disaggregated compute. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to:

• Accelerate your career growth by tackling complex engineering challenges at global scale.
• Deepen your expertise in distributed systems, performance optimization, and cloud security.
• bn Collaborate across organizations, driving technical innovation and influencing future Azure architecture.

This opportunity is designed for engineers who thrive on impact, continuous learning, and collaboration. Flexible work options are available, including partial work-from-home arrangements.

At Microsoft, our mission is empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more. We embrace a growth mindset, innovate for others, and collaborate to realize our goals. Our culture is built on respect, integrity, and accountability, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone thrives.

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.
• Demonstrable technical leadership experience, with demonstrable results including collaborating with external stakeholders.

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.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale distributed systems, services, or platforms.
  • Proficiency in Rust and/or C++ for systems-level programming.
• 1+ year(s) of experience working in high-stakes production service environments, including live-site operations.
• 1+ year(s) of troubleshooting and debugging skills in distributed or cloud systems.
• 1+ year(s) proficency for learning and growing in Azure core compute and cloud security domains.

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 and processes offers for these roles on an ongoing basis.

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.

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• Collaborate with stakeholders to determine requirements and conceptualize high-level designs for features and scenarios.
• Drive identification of dependencies and develop design documents for Azure Core Compute services.
• Create, implement, debug, refactor, and optimize code to improve maintainability, performance, and security.
• Partner with project managers and cross-functional stakeholders to define project and release plans, leveraging your expertise in distributed systems and service fundamentals.
• Act as a Designated Responsible Individual (DRI), contributing to on-call rotations, monitoring service health, and restoring services during incidents.
• Proactively learn new technologies, adapting to evolving technical patterns to improve availability, reliability, observability, and performance at scale.
• Serve as a technical contributor in building security-first features, influencing architecture and implementation across Azure Compute Node Services.