New 
Software Engineer II
 Microsoft | |
 United States, Texas, Irving | |
| 7000 State Highway 161 (Show on map) | |
 Oct 30, 2025 | |
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OverviewAzure Core is the foundation of Microsoft's cloud platform, powering infrastructure that enables global-scale computing. Within Azure, you will help define and validate technologies that deliver computational capabilities for customers worldwide. This work includes contributing to the architecture of new systems, addressing challenges of operating at scale, and optimizing next-generation Azure offerings. You will also gain experience supporting new business models and applications as Microsoft expands its cloud ecosystem.As a Software Engineer II in Azure Core, you will work on distributed systems to create a compute platform that is highly scalable, resilient, secure, and focused on data consistency. You will collaborate with peers to design and implement solutions that meet demanding availability and performance requirements. Our team values innovation and encourages engineers to deliver creative solutions that provide measurable customer impact.This role offers opportunities to work on cutting-edge technologies, learn from experienced professionals, and contribute to services that operate at massive scale. You will help shape the future of cloud computing while advancing your technical expertise in a dynamic environment.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.
ResponsibilitiesPartners with appropriate stakeholders determine user requirements and features for a set of scenarios.Leads the design and building distributed services that are secure, scalable, reliable, and performant.Creates, implements, optimizes, debugs, refactors, and reuses code to establish and improve performance and resilience, maintainability, effectiveness, and return on investment (ROI).Leverage performance and profiling tools to identify hot spots and bottlenecks across hardware and software boundaries.Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform.Operates services in production, meeting a high bar on monitoring, detection, and resolution of issues with live services.Proactively seeks new knowledge and adapts to new trends, technical solutions, and patterns that will improve the availability, resilience, efficiency, observability, and performance of cloud services while also driving consistency in monitoring and operations at scale and shares knowledge with other engineers. | |