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Senior Software Engineer - Software Defined Networking
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Oct 22, 2025 | |
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OverviewThe Azure Networking team drives innovation across the stack, delivering new scale and features for cloud and desktop platforms while transforming infrastructure to support over 200 Microsoft online services, including Bing, MSN, Office 365, Xbox Live, Skype, and OneDrive, and hundreds of thousands of customers running Cloud Services on Azure. Our global footprint spans more than 100 datacenters with millions of servers and edge computing nodes. We build across the full networking spectrum: hardware, optical and Internet Protocol (IP) networks spanning subsea, terrestrial, and metro fiber; hybrid services enabling Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) connectivity from on-premise networks to the cloud; edge services for optimized peering and routing; Software Defined Networking (SDN) products such as Virtual Network (VNet), Load Balancer, Security Groups, Application Gateways, Virtual Appliances, and Domain Name Server (DNS) services. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Azure Networking's Software Defined Networking (SDN) team, you will build high-performance, scalable virtual networking solutions for the cloud. You will enable enterprise-grade network functions-Access Control Lists (ACLs), firewalls, load balancers, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)/Intrusion Detection System (IDS), and Denial of Service (DoS) protection-for Virtual Machines (VMs) in the cloud. 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.
ResponsibilitiesCollaborates 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. Other: Embody our Culture and Values | |