Senior Software Engineer
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Jul 02, 2025 | |
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OverviewCalling all Senior Software Engineers with a interest for pushing the boundaries of cloud technology! Join our team at Azure Core Compute and be at the forefront of building the next generation cloud that will redefine how businesses scale, collaborate, and thrive.We are one of the most profitable and fastest-growing businesses at Microsoft on the mission to make Azure the world's computer powering all customer workloads! The Azure Core Compute Node Services team isresponsible for materializing and managing customer-facing compute resources as virtual machines, containers and bare metal servers. We actively explore forward-looking technologies, evolving the host OS while utilizing hardware offloads and leveraging disaggregation. As a mission-critical cloud platform, our goal is to ensure industry-leading availability, reliability, performance, compliance and security.As a Senior Software Engineer on our team, you will lead features that run on millions of nodes, work across organizations to meet the scale, elasticity, latency and reliability demands of our customers. You will have opportunities to learn about new technologies and design the next version of services adapting to hardware evolution. You will have the freedom to ideate, create and providethought leadership in bringing innovation to our products and engineering practices and grow into a senior technical or organizational leader. If you've dreamed of making global impact and love creating value for customers while also having fun in a globally distributed, culturally diverse team, come talk to us today!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.
Responsibilities* Collaborates with appropriate stakeholders to determine user requirements for a scenario.* 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. | |